Just going to separate and land (think the starship was going to do most of an orbit).
I believe that there was no plan to recover either bit, but I think both parts were supposed to do soft landing tests before crashing into the sea.
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Just going to separate and land (think the starship was going to do most of an orbit).
I believe that there was no plan to recover either bit, but I think both parts were supposed to do soft landing tests before crashing into the sea.
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Because they were told to ? Or perhaps the thought of more work.Beats me why the monkeys were cheering a failure.
SpaceX Giant Rocket Blows Up Minutes After Launching From Texas On Test Flight
SpaceX’s Starship rocket blasted off on its first test flight but failed minutes after rising from the launch pad.www.huffpost.com
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Separate AND land so 100% success then . Just hope they can find all the pieces.
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As opposed to the Rawhide bra - "rounds 'em up and moves 'em out"
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Apparently Twitter is no longer losing cash, he's made it cash flow positive. And is planning to expand it into a thing like WeChat.
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It travelled through Max Q on its very first flight which proves the fundamental design is good. Failure to separate will turn out to be a relatively small detail. It's a bit like a brand new F1 car on track for the first time, besting all the sector times, but failing to complete the lap because a tyre failed. Musk is a hero... but sometimes a bit wacky.
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Twitter is hemmoraging cash it can't even keep up with the interest payments on the loans he took out on it.
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Do you work for the current Government? You almost convinced me that the failure to enter its orbit was a total success, don't care how much you sugar coat it the thing got stuck together and exploded. In my experience of Rocket technology (which is zero) the easy bit was lighting the rocket and the hard bit was separation and coordinates to its chosen spot in space.
BTW Musk is my hero
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I think my post #149 is close to the mark. And as I pointed out earlier, the problem could just be a line of computer code. The very first ever Ariane V launch was a disaster purely due to a software issues, but that vehicle went on to have a great success record, including putting the James Webb Telescope in to such a precise spot that the spacecraft conserved lots of its own propellant, so greatly extending its life.
Stage-separation needs a number of explosive bolts to act in unison and then retro-rockets to fire to slow the spent stage down. That method and that technology is well-proven. It seems very likely to me that the flight ended badly through some minor failure (i.e. easily fixable) of those components, but the fact the first stage reached and passed Max Q proves that it's fundamentally viable. The design needs no huge changes. I'd happily bet £1k the rocket is successfully working and putting huge payloads into orbit fairly quickly, going on to Make Musk huge amounts of money.
Stage-separation needs a number of explosive bolts to act in unison and then retro-rockets to fire to slow the spent stage down. That method and that technology is well-proven. It seems very likely to me that the flight ended badly through some minor failure (i.e. easily fixable) of those components, but the fact the first stage reached and passed Max Q proves that it's fundamentally viable. The design needs no huge changes. I'd happily bet £1k the rocket is successfully working and putting huge payloads into orbit fairly quickly, going on to Make Musk huge amounts of money.
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First launch and achieving what they did is a serious achievement.
You need to realise that this is probably the first rocket development in the public eye, the rest happened in places that conspiracy nuts would die to see. the history of rocketry is littered with stuff that blew before it left the launchpad to stuf that failed in space and died or never returned, failed to activate, just plain failed 40 million miles from home.
You need to realise that this is probably the first rocket development in the public eye, the rest happened in places that conspiracy nuts would die to see. the history of rocketry is littered with stuff that blew before it left the launchpad to stuf that failed in space and died or never returned, failed to activate, just plain failed 40 million miles from home.
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Absolute bullchyt from a Muskavite.
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Apparently the RUD was initiated manually as it had veered off courseDo you work for the current Government? You almost convinced me that the failure to enter its orbit was a total success, don't care how much you sugar coat it the thing got stuck together and exploded. In my experience of Rocket technology (which is zero) the easy bit was lighting the rocket and the hard bit was separation and coordinates to its chosen spot in space.
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Wish I could do that with my missus…
