SpaceX's Starship launches

[Kyng]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-65334810



Elon Musk's SpaceX company's mammoth new rocket, Starship, has exploded on its maiden flight.

No-one was hurt in the uncrewed test that lifted off from Texas' east coast on Thursday morning local time.

After two to three minutes into the flight, the rocket - the biggest ever developed - started to tumble out of control and was soon destroyed by onboard charges.

Mr Musk has said his company will try again in a couple of months.

SpaceX engineers still class Thursday's mission as a success. They like to "test early and often" and are not afraid to break things. They will have gathered a mass of data to work towards the next flight. A second Starship is almost ready to take flight.

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Wow, that must have been pretty expensive ! Not that Elon Musk is short of money, but still .

Let's just hope they can figure out what went wrong, and fix it for the next launch... it's why they test these things, after all .

[Kyng]

Another of these has been launched. It was lost on re-entry - but nevertheless, it did go further than ever before, and the climb into space went perfectly:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68547482

Now that they've got the 'upward' part of the journey sorted, let's hope they can figure out the 'downward' part !

[~ True Legend ~]

Kyng my friend just remember that when Musk initially launched SpaceX the first 3 rocket launches failed and everyone assumed it’d be a failure but he just kept pushing… and looks where he is now

[Kyng]

Kyng my friend just remember that when Musk initially launched SpaceX the first 3 rocket launches failed and everyone assumed it’d be a failure but he just kept pushing… and looks where he is now

True: just because a spacecraft exploded doesn't mean it was a failure . The point of these launches is to iron out the bugs, before they send them up with people (or anything else important) inside !

[~ True Legend ~]

Kyng my friend just remember that when Musk initially launched SpaceX the first 3 rocket launches failed and everyone assumed it’d be a failure but he just kept pushing… and looks where he is now

True: just because a spacecraft exploded doesn't mean it was a failure . The point of these launches is to iron out the bugs, before they send them up with people (or anything else important) inside !

💯 don’t wanna be sending us humans up there on untested spacecraft !