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Starship Flight 7 breaking up and re-entering over Turks and Caicos
https://rumble.com/v6a6bfd-starship-flight-7-breaking-up-and-re-entering-over-turks-and-caicos.html
Premature detonation, story of my life.
Oh no a failure! Thank God NASA never had one.
Any drones around?
Bidens goons shot it down
That’s “Gulf of AMERICA,” schmucks.
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Preliminary indication is that we had an oxygen/fuel leak in the cavity above the ship engine firewall that was large enough to build pressure in excess of the vent capacity.
Apart from obviously double-checking for leaks, we will add fire suppression to that volume and probably increase vent area. Nothing so far suggests pushing next launch past next month.
Maybe a few hundred more H1B’s would help.
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.
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.