Posted on 01/16/2025 4:53:49 PM PST by janetjanet998
A SpaceX Starship prototype failed in space minutes after launching from Texas on Thursday, forcing airline flights over the Gulf of Mexico to alter course to avoid falling debris and setting back Elon Musk's flagship rocket program. SpaceX mission control lost contact with the newly upgraded Starship, carrying its first test payload of mock satellites, eight minutes after liftoff from its South Texas rocket facilities at 5:38 p.m. EST (2238 GMT).
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Wow. That’s interesting. When I was watching one if the livestreams I thought I heard somebody muttering something about a drop in methane...A big drop.
Check this out, from last month...
https://ringwatchers.com/article/s33-tanks#main-transfer-tubes
“...Both Starship and Super Heavy have a transfer tube system, and the upgraded ship debuts some significant changes that completely change how fuel is delivered to the engines.
More accurately, the new ship’s fuel transfer tubes have a plethora of changes. And yes, it’s pluralized now. The new ship has four methane transfer tubes instead of just one...”
That was interesting. I met David Freiburg probably 1972 or three in Forest Knolls. I was a friend of the secretary of the band Quicksilver. And then another friend of mine married Pete Sears from the Starship. I even traveled on the starship airplane once. They were both in around my life for a long time. David was good, one of the nicest guys or should I say is.
Maybe a few hundred more H1B’s would help.
When you are operating on the cutting edge, you want the best talent possible.
I read that Musk believes in what he called something like fail fast . If I understood it correctly, it meant to test things quickly and learn from mistakes rather than wait for a very long time to give an innovation its first test. Mask seems to be doing very well with his innovations..
Orbs and drones
That is why they call them “tests”.
By the way, the booster return and catch was spectacular!
well according to his biographer, that’s the way Elon rolls. he blows things up, studies why, and corrects the problem on the next try. there’s never a completely finished product.
one problem with that is that everyone has to get out of the way when something fails.
Nothing easy about rocketing into orbit. SpaceX will learn from this, as they learn from every launch. The good news this week is that New Glenn achieved orbit.
one problem with that is that everyone has to get out of the way when something fails.
Unlikely in case of a test. Failure is expected.
That is my understanding also. People like Thomas Edison made hundreds of versions of electric lamps, most all failures, before making a successful version. Same is true of Shuji Nakamura, inventor of blue and white LED bulbs. Everyone said it was impossible to make a white LED, which required making a blue LED. He did hundreds of experiments before succeeding, all while his company was blocking his attempts. Unfortunately the company stole his patent and secrets, which he had to sue to correct. Anyway, rapid tests and failures can lead to success.
The hypocrirony of those who cheer for Starship failures yet feel the smugness driving their Teslas...
Yes, new word of mine today. A merger of hypocrisy and irony.
A patriot angel got their wings today.
I cheer when a cheap labor anti America worker hack’s pet project blows up. So yeah, there is that angle.
Good observation and commentary. If someone had blasted this out of the sky as some suggest, Musk’s comment would on that would have been the first.
Youngsters! (I remember their name change from Jefferson Airplane.) 8<)
(And she was originally Joan Propeller. But that phase didn’t last long.)
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