Summary
SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft exploded in space minutes after launching from Texas, marking the second consecutive failure this year.
The rocket spun uncontrollably before breaking apart, with debris seen over Florida and the Bahamas. The cause remains unclear, though multiple engines shut down before contact was lost.
The failure raises concerns about setbacks in Elon Musk’s Mars rocket program. The FAA temporarily halted flights at major Florida airports due to falling debris.
A similar Starship failure in January scattered wreckage over the Caribbean.
This is going to happen more frequently, and be significantly more disruptive. Elon wants to do like 130 launches a year, and for some reason, thinks it’s smart to break shit in a love environment rather than do more virtual testing or preparation.
Hey y’know what we should do? Give them billions in taxpayer money to take over the FAA systems and make everything go perfect.
Consumer Schmonfidence!
I’m sorry for the Caribbean, but if I’m totally honest, the news made me smile.
I’d smile if elon had been inside.
This is not news
Wake me up when a space ship does not explode, so that for once SpaceX crew will not be cheering
Reminder that SpaceX is owned and run by scammer Nazi Elmo Musk who literally lies about everything. Musk is gutting government subsiding everywhere yet SpaceX floats on billions of dollars to blow up rockets. Waste? Naaahh.
Fuck SpaceX, its a scam just as the rest of Elmo
It’s news because it’s dropping hazardous material over populated areas.
Waitwaitwait, you’re telling me Elon Musk runs SpaceX???
Friend I get what you’re saying but this newest explosion is quite literally news, and pretty much everyone here knows that it is news that affects the asshole raping our country right now, which is why it is such newsy news. So I am not sure what your point is.
Good
“The cause remains unclear” lmao
As if everyone on the livestream couldn’t see the fire in the engine bay, the exact problem that blew up the last rocket too.
Obviously the fire suppression failed again and it caused an energetic failure in one or more engines, flinging Starship into a rapid spin. It held on for, I dunno, 30 seconds to a minute, until they sent the kill command.
The cause is Elon incompetence., edit : his incompetence in ideas and scheduling pressure.
I don’t think he’s terribly involved at SpaceX these days. Other than causing schedule pressure… which certainly may have caused this failure by not giving the engineers proper time to research and fix the issue from the previous launch.
that’s giving him too much credit. he’s just an ideas guy.
One of the inner engines had a visible outgassing pointing to structural failure in the engine itself. This was followed briefly by an engine explosion. No reasonable fire suppression system can handle an event this size. The best way to address this is detecting it early and running an emergency shutdown of the valves on the supply lines.
Surely shutting down failed engines is part of the fire suppression plan, no?
Remember that this business always caused debris raining all over the world, not just now with musk as the ceo
Anyone else get a familiar feeling watching this timeline?
i remember when i thought of that movie as a comedy… now it’s just (almost) reality
Which movie is that
Don’t Look Up (2021)
It’s a very efficient device for delivering large amounts of methane straight to the upper atmosphere, where it’ll do the most damage.
why would you use a picture of the part that works perfectly not the part that failed?
