Let's just pretend the V2 ship design never happened.
Hopefully the ground infrastructure isn't too damaged.
this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2025
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Honestly, if they just scrapped the ship, the booster would still be a brilliant win. Slap a normal second stage and payload fairing on that and you’ve got a rocket to pretty much anywhere.
Everything fell off
That’s actually quite typical, I’d like to make that point.
It’s ok, we’ll just tow it outside the environment
If say that's more of a dynamic fire.
Ever since they got rid of woke the starships just keep blowing up
Revenge of the woke mind virus
Wow. When Ellen Musty said he would decommission the rockets, he really meant it.
Look at all those beautiful tax payer dollars!
tax payer dollars
Not really. SpaceX are paying for these tests. While NASA have agreed to purchase Starship launch services for the Artemis program, they aren't funding each test individually. The Starship contract for Artemis is fixed-price, not cost-plus. Whether SpaceX blow up one Starship or ten during the testing phase, NASA pay the same amount for the operational flights.
Indeed.
I assumed the comment was satirising one common form of misguided critique of SpaceX's "hardware-rich" approach to this development programme. But yes, now I'm not so sure.
Can't blame snipers this time.
You know,
Last time dingledorf made a mess, there was consequences/investigations by the FAA. Now that this has happened, what are the chances it will be investigated at all or any consequence of dangerous actions?
I wonder what people will die as a direct result of SpaceX going all Titan Submersible now that they aren't held accountable, because Elon got in there and gutted the FAA.
there was consequences/investigations by the FAA
That was a flight test. This was a ground test. Ground testing is not a licensed activity with the FAA, so they have no reason to get involved here. (Per Adrian Beil of NASASpaceflight)
Oh, yeah I guess that makes sense and is a fair point.
But I still doubt SpaceX will receive any consequences for its reckless testing practices.
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Happy cake day!