SpaceX’s Starship rocket system reached several milestones in its second test flight before the rocket booster and spacecraft exploded over the Gulf of Mexico.

SpaceX’s Starship rocket system reached several milestones in its second test flight before the rocket booster and spacecraft exploded over the Gulf of Mexico.

  • Buffaloaf@lemmy.world
    1969·
    10 months ago

    I really wish they’d stop putting Musk’s name on things like this. He didn’t design the engines, he didn’t plan the flight path, he did nothing but throw a bunch of money at a company because he’s obsessed with Mars.

        • Pennomi@lemmy.worldEnglish
          322·
          10 months ago

          Falcon 9 is the most reliable rocket in the world and it used to explode like this too. It’ll be 5-10 years of successful unmanned flights before anyone rides on this rocket.

          • Neato@kbin.social
            718·
            10 months ago

            Was NASA exploding rockets this frequently when they pioneered all of this decades ago? It only took NASA 8 years to go from first entering space to landing on the moon. SpaceX is nowhere close to that and they’ve been launching rockets for 17 years.

              • Neato@kbin.social
                1011·
                10 months ago

                Damn you clearly know nothing about technological development. Elon stands on the shoulders of all those who gave their lives in the past. He benefits from all the safety regulations.

                And still with all of that. The tens of billions of dollars the government hands out to him. And more than twice the time of the Space Race he had accomplished so little. How many successful rockets did NASA develop in that time? A lot more than SpaceX.

            • QuinceDaPence@kbin.social
              71·
              10 months ago

              Different design processes and NASA has to appease Congress who likes to cut funding if a rocket blows up.

              But the Design-build-test-break-redesign-etc process that SpaceX uses is cheaper, quicker, and gives more data.

            • BastingChemina@slrpnk.net
              3·
              10 months ago

              It took 8 Years AND $25 billions ($248 billions adjusted to today’s dollar value).

              For comparison NASA awarded a contract for spacex to develop the Human Landing System, the value of the contract is $2.89 billions.

            • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
              22·
              10 months ago

              No, but the resources given and the requirements set are different. The Saturn V did not have to be reusable and was awarded two orders of magnitude more funding. Which is ultimately why it stopped being made.

    • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
      92·
      10 months ago

      … throw a bunch of money at a company because he ’s obsessed with Mars. wanted to justify sending money to some Russian arm dealers friends.

      • cole@lemdro.idEnglish
        0·
        10 months ago

        what? didn’t he start SpaceX because Russia WOULDN’T take his money?

        • stopthatgirl7@kbin.socialOP
          1·
          10 months ago

          IIRC, they wouldn’t take his money because he misunderstood the price they wanted, tried to bargain it down and lowball them, and ended up pissing them off so much they doubled the price.

    • YⓄ乙 @aussie.zoneEnglish
      41·
      10 months ago

      Sadly, Thats how capitalism work hence they keep using Musk’s name. Anyone with money is valuable in our economy.

    • Marbles@discuss.tchncs.de
      647·
      10 months ago

      This just false. Sure, he did not do everything alone but he has a huge hand in engineering concepts and design decisions. Lots of hate and complete misunderstanding how spaceship, spaceX and Musk work in this thread.