SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft exploded on Thursday minutes after lifting off from Texas, dooming an attempt to deploy mock satellites in the second consecutive failure this year for Elon Musk’s Mars rocket program.
Several videos on social media showed fiery debris streaking through the dusk skies near south Florida and the Bahamas after Starship’s breakup in space, which occurred shortly after it began to spin uncontrollably with its engines cut off, a SpaceX livestream of the mission showed.
The failure comes just more than a month after the company’s seventh Starship flight also ended in an explosive failure. The back-to-back mishaps occurred in early mission phases that SpaceX has easily surpassed previously, indicating serious setbacks for a program Musk has sought to speed up this year.
And we need at least like 7 consecutive launches like this to fuel a moon mission. No wonder he’s talking about Mars again, more time to grift off taxpayer money and not be on the hook to actually deliver any time soon.
Worst fucking timeline.
Sorry Elon, you’re just going to have to live in the hell you’re creating.
Ughhhh just get in the rocket, rocket boy!!!
Yeah, Musk is just not micro managing enough. If he was on board he’d be able to fix any issues that come up in real time.
It’s because he spends all his time being a top ranked gamer, don’t you know…
He pays some guy to do it, which is even sadder.
That’s the joke…
He should take some friends with him to make sure that they can see how good he is at fixing things.
Yeah, the perfect opportunity to try to impress Trump and Vance.
How’s that HLS coming? BONT and Dynetics are dying to know.
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Maybe the internal GPS was looking for the Gulf of Mexico and just gave up?
Musk “speeding up” the program. Lol.
Remember when the FAA grounded him till he got this fix and then Musk told the FAA head to retire or be fired?
I think it’s wild that “better times” is now when corruption wasn’t so naked.
Remember a few years back when Trump was bemoaning Elon’s rockets to nowhere?
Pepperidge… Forbes remembers.
All billionaires really care about is money. And anything they say is what they think is in their best interest to earn more money. Nothing a billionaire says or does is sincere.
Yes, but this is even worse than the naked and rapacious pursuit of profit.
It is failing at even producing profit, literally burning through billions of dollars, not even accomplishing anything.
We are now at the stage where basically all the wealthiest and most powerful people are so high on their own supply, so deluded into believing they are geniuses, they are seemingly burning down the entire economy through sheer incompetence.
Trump seems to genuienly believe that international balances of trade just work the same as a hotel’s revenues vs costs.
Elon seems to genuienly believe his incompetent approach to engineering will actually result in market viable products.
… And seemingly at least half of Americans are just part of these personality cults, all facts and evidence be damned.
It sure sucks to be alive duringthe time period of humanity being filtered by the great filter.
You’re forgetting the lesson of the economics collapse of 2008. Everybody suffered except for the wealthy. They actually profited off that collapse. People’s 401k’s were being wiped clean… well, who was buying those shares at record low prices?
Point being, if it looks like Musk and Trump are trying to burn down the economy, it is not through incompetence, it is knowing they will only gain power from this collapse.
I hear what you are saying, and I do agree that the wealthy become more wealthy and the poor become more poor after a large collapse.
But I honestly do not think Trump and Elon are actually trying to fail this hard intentionally.
I genuinely believe they are so completely full of themselves that they think what they are doing… will actually work as they say it will.
The result is still the same, but I truly think that Trump and Elon will either be surprised when this all blows up in their faces, or further retreat into delusion, like Hitler in his bunker.
The people around them that are encouraging their actions? Many of them probably are smart enough to know how this will play out, but a lot of them are also very, very stupid.
Again I completely agree that the net outcome is easily discernible to a non lunatic, and a lot of non lunatics are cynically playing into all this… but we live in an era of increasingly widespread lunacy, of true believers that will have complete dissasociative personality collapse when they see all their ideas were wrong, or invent their own delusional alternate realities where they were in fact right and all bad news is deep state fake news illuminati lies.
I really do think a lot of these idiots believe their own bullshit to a significant degree and are not lying in the sense of saying one thing will happen when they know another thing actually will.
They’re just actually insane.
The only real difference between Mike Lindell and Elon Musk is Elon got more buy in. Their mindsets are the same: They’re right, because they believe they are, and to the extent they have money and influence, they’ll invent their own realities to maintain their delusions.
That article is a wild. Feels like we are in a story with terrible foreshadowing and retcons
I think we’re in the Matrix where the machines have found a superior alternate fuel source.
Wait until you hear of Vance criticising Trump.
I mean SpaceX has had a much longer history of telling federal agencies (especially the EPA) to go fuck themselves, launching anyway, and having absolutely fuck all for repercussions.
Second failure
Uhh, that title is wrong.
As is clarified in the body of the article, this is test number 8 for Starship.
Zero successful flights.4 failures, 50% success rate. Like a coin flip.This is integrated flight test 8. It is only the second test flight for a block 2 ship, hence second failure. Several block 1 ships splashed down successfully in the ocean, so you’re objectively wrong here.
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Just be accurate next time, there’s nothing wrong with criticizing the things they do wrong, just don’t lie about the facts.
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Then I saw a second beast, coming out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb, but it spoke like a dragon. It exercised all the authority of the first beast on its behalf, and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose fatal wound had been healed. And it performed great signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to the earth in full view of the people. Because of the signs it was given power to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived the inhabitants of the earth.
Oh, fuck me…
American evangelicals are fucking ushering him in. I’m not religious, but if it’s all actually real, at least they will burn in hell.
:p If they were the beasts, the “godly” would line up to take the mark.
I keep saying this, but christianity ended at the siege of munster.
If that’s the case, then Islam ended at The Siege of Fort Tabarsi.
don’t know enough about that part of history, I mostly know that the contenders for ‘last real christians’ were either the pre-munster anabaptists, or weirdo fanatics like john brown. it’s not about the killing; christians had been killing each other for a WHILE before that.
I wonder if the reason for it failing this time was sabotage by SpaceX engineers.
If It is, they’re assholes for not waiting until there’s a couple billionaires onboard
Sabotage, or the fact that the best rocket scientists probably don’t want to work for a Nazi on ketamine?
Where’s the ketamine for the rest of us already?
Hey last time that happened we ended up with the atomic bomb.
I would like to know whatever you think you are talking about, because of definitely not the Manhattan project
The joke is all the good scientists that didn’t wanna work for the nazi left and came to America
The bomb wasn’t successfully developed by the ones working for the Nazi on ketamine…
I feel so bad for SpaceX engineers. If you grew up dreaming of space, you learn the math and science, and end up with that piece of shit as the figurehead for all your work.
At least Elon doesn’t actually run things at SpaceX, despite what he might say in public. Gwynne Shit well actually runs the company, and is likely the reason it’s actually pretty on track and hasn’t gone the way of Tesla.
Starship is not like any other rocket currently being made, and it’s being built in an iterative process, unlike the legacy rocket manufacturers, and even most new companies. This design process is intended to make changes and break things at every step, in the real world. Then make changes to try and fix those problems, and test it again. And not every step will fix previous issues. They’re building multiple Boosters and Starships simultaneously, and none of the ones being launched are the newest version at this point of development. They’re all older models by the time they fly.
All true, but he’s still their official overall leader, company owner, and “lead engineer” and that really, really sucks.
asdf
I assume when Musk decided he wanted it to move faster his disruption undermined the process, meaning he sabotaged it.
From the anecdotes I’ve heard by ppl who worked for him, that would not be surprising.
Can you share any of those anecdotes?
Here’s a documented instance. https://www.industryweek.com/leadership/companies-executives/article/22017721/spacex-technician-says-concerns-about-tests-got-him-fired
I wish I could find a story that was in somebody’s biography (i think?). It was about Elon stepping in to “fix” a bottleneck in the production line for Tesla cars by reprogramming the robotic arm to torque bolts faster. But, in doing so, he ended up causing a bunch of vehicles to get sent back to the production line because the bolts were all over-torqued.
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No, because he wants SpaceX to succeed!
I hope a space X employee is making these fail on purpose and keeps doing it
The hidden cost of 60-hour work weeks.
America is footing this bill. This is no more musk’s “Mars program” than it is MY mars program. Matter of fact, seeing as I pay taxes and he doesn’t, it’s more mine that his.
It’s time to remove musk’s U.S. subsidies for cars, rockets, and whatever else he’s fucking up.
Unfortunately his fucking up has now been subsidized
