NY Times: Twin Test Flight Explosions zeigen, dass SpaceX die Schwerkraft nicht mehr trotzt
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/science/starship-spacex-explosion-elon-musk.html
NY Times: Twin Test Flight Explosions zeigen, dass SpaceX die Schwerkraft nicht mehr trotzt
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/science/starship-spacex-explosion-elon-musk.html
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Finally, people are starting to ask the tough questions about the SpaceX development of Starship:
Twin Test Flight Explosions Show SpaceX Is No Longer Defying Gravity.
Consecutive losses of the Starship rocket suggest that the company’s engineers are not as infallible as its fans may think.
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*But these two Starship explosions were a step backward in SpaceX’s development process, as the flights could not even repeat the successes of earlier test flights, and they perhaps show that the company’s engineers are not as infallible as fans of the company sometimes like to think.*
*“There’s this persona that has built up around SpaceX, but you’re starting to see that they’re human, too,” said Daniel Dumbacher, a former NASA official who is now a professor of engineering practice at Purdue University and chief innovation and strategy officer for Special Aerospace Services, an engineering and manufacturing company whose customers include NASA, the United States Space Force and some of SpaceX’s competitors.*
Wouldn’t exactly consider myself a „fan,“ but what Space X and other private space programs are doing is pretty awesome. It’s important to point out that these „fails“ are accounted for and in a way, planned. Space X has adopted a rapid development and testing approach that agencies like NASA just can’t afford. They don’t have to move as slowly and as calculated as tax funded programs. Every launch, „successful“ or not, is a wealth of knowledge.