SpaceX erreichte Platz mit Starship Flight 9 Start und verlor dann die Kontrolle über das riesige Raumschiff (Video)
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-launches-starship-flight-9-to-space-in-historic-reuse-of-giant-megarocket-video
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Only thing that went right today was the booster reuse, losing the starship for a third straight time its really sad.
Starship has a critical design flaw with those flappy wings
Not sure why SpaceX didn’t just make a bigger version of the Dragon capsule, its a simple design that’s been proven to work since the 1950s
EDIT: [Down vote away, this is the flight 6 where everyone is saying the flaps „didn’t“ burn….](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fdespite-one-of-the-flaps-being-completely-burned-through-v0-hzev8ar95z4d1.jpg%3Fwidth%3D1920%26format%3Dpjpg%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3Dfa3fda1d061fbf89153e25b33bf1ceaa74da9781) lol open your eyes people
So when are they planning on doing a test launch with any real cargo? Dummy payload of ~4 tons (5 simulated Starlink satellites) really isn’t a lot.
„Looks like we lost the booster, but that’s not really important for this flight“
„The cargo doors didn’t open, but that’s not the important part of this test“
„Looks like we lost telemetry to starship, but the important part is the data we got“
Got to give a big thumbs up to the positivity of the commentators 🙂
Ignoring the sad attempts at PR, 9th consecutive failure.
so this is the company lobbying our tax dollars away from real science to pointless human „exploration“?
It’s like the cyber truck, but a little more expensive. 😉
How long before we can start questioning the reality of starship becoming operational? I know these are prototypes, build fast fail fast, and all that. But Starship just isn’t progressing;
We’re 9 flights in and still don’t have rapid reusability of either stage (this booster is a refurb but its been 5 months and it failed before the end of its flight profile), the ship is yet to prove it can survive re-entry (hard to test when it can’t even reach a stable orbit though).
Neither test of the payload door have been successful, so no closer to actually deploying any real payload.
Mass to orbit targets are continually being slashed, making on-orbit refueling a much more daunting task.
Until we see serious improvements in reliability we’re not going to be getting any tests of making it suitable for human spaceflight. And until we get there starship is not going to be taking people to the moon for Artemis.
Nothing has been achieved yet, other than making a really tall, fully expendable rocket that might reach stable orbit.
Remind me again how this is supposed to be superior to the Saturn V rocket? SV had 13 total launches and none exploded.
But when the Starliner launches into space and limps to a successful docking and nails its landing months after the hardware was tested for a stay on station it’s called a failure.