DaButt
Friday 15th March 2024 4:51am
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Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 15th March 2024, 1:14 AM
WTF is this then.......................
Your complaint about the term "rapid unscheduled disassembly" was posted at 0830 GMT. The launch took place at 1325 GMT. I was watching the pre-launch livestream with the rocket still perched on the pad while you were posting about its failure.
Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 15th March 2024, 1:14 AM
seeing the knob has had three Space X rockets fail.
Quote: lofthouse @ 14th March 2024, 4:37 PM
Aaaaaaaaaaand it's gone
It's the largest, most powerful rocket ever built, and the pace of its development is breathtaking. This mission had always planned to splash both stages into the ocean, and that's exactly what happened. They attempted two controlled descents into the water, and they nearly completed both.
According to Musk, the first mission had a 50% chance of exploding on the pad, but it didn't. The second mission corrected all the first mission's flaws and was lost while attempting an extremely difficult hot-staging maneuver. Today's launch pulled off the hot staging perfectly and also executed many tricky engineering maneuvers for the first time. These are test flights, and the engineers will correct the mistakes with the next launch. SpaceX failed in its first few attempts to land its reusable Falcon 9 rockets, but now they stick the landing every time and it has proven to be the world's most reliable launch vehicle. Clearly, NASA expects the Starship platform to be an equally reliable workhorse, as they have chosen it for manned lunar landings just a couple of years from now. Starship will almost certainly be the ride of choice for the inevitable manned landings on Mars.
SpaceX continues to do incredible things. Worldwide, there have been 48 successful orbital launches this year, and 25 of them were accomplished by SpaceX. They're better at launching spacecraft than every country in the world combined.