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.
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.
Oh sorry, I didn’t realize that blowing up the launch pad because they didn’t bother to calculate if it could survive without a sacrificial water barrier to boil away counted as a success.
Everyone hit by that debris had it coming like the whales, right?
Wikipedia says 4 successes and 4 failures. The first two block 1s failed. Now the first two block 2s have failed.
I still get to give spacex shit for their failures consistently causing damage and chaos and disruption to the rest of the world. They are menaces that don’t think through the consequences of their actions.
Just be accurate next time, there’s nothing wrong with criticizing the things they do wrong, just don’t lie about the facts.
I wasn’t lying if I was honestly mistaken. Thanks for the correction.