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SpaceX Catches Super Heavy Booster, Looses Starship
SpaceX X Feed ^ | 3/6/25 | SpaceX

Posted on 03/06/2025 3:48:33 PM PST by Yo-Yo

Mechazilla has caught the Super Heavy booster!


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..But moments later Starship lost 4 of its 6 Raptor engines and tumbled out of control until telemetry was lost.
1 posted on 03/06/2025 3:48:33 PM PST by Yo-Yo
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2 posted on 03/06/2025 3:53:12 PM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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So where is Starship now?

Did the Ukrainians, Europeans, Russians, ChiComs, Norks, Soros, WEF or the Democrats shoot it down?


3 posted on 03/06/2025 3:53:26 PM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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I’m going to be the “conspiracy theorist’ here. That’s two Starships that they lost right about the same time in the flight.

Given what the Liberals and Democrats have been saying and implying about Elon and everything he does, I am beginning to wonder if, and I hate to say this, that there is a mole or something over at Starbase in Texas, and that SABOTAGE may be involed.


4 posted on 03/06/2025 3:55:28 PM PST by hoagy62 (Hail Trump! Trump won! By a lot!)
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To: dfwgator

(Starship)

And we can build this dream together

Well it IS rocket 🚀 science so ...


5 posted on 03/06/2025 3:55:56 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: fella

That’s the right question.

One of them more likely than the others...


6 posted on 03/06/2025 3:56:20 PM PST by OKSooner (FOOLS!! I'll assimilate them all!!!! BWAHAHA!!!)
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second one in a row of those, right? Do they have another vehicle to fetch the astronauts Biden abandoned?


7 posted on 03/06/2025 3:57:59 PM PST by sopo
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You’d have to be pretty dumb to think being a saboteur involved in a Musk corporation, and not think you’d get caught. Don’t mess with the DOGEmaster


8 posted on 03/06/2025 3:58:03 PM PST by Blue Highway
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Ahem, coughcough, and other throat-clearing noises...


9 posted on 03/06/2025 3:58:13 PM PST by OKSooner (FOOLS!! I'll assimilate them all!!!! BWAHAHA!!!)
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To: hoagy62

+1


I’m going to be the “conspiracy theorist’ here. That’s two Starships that they lost right about the same time in the flight.

Given what the Liberals and Democrats have been saying and implying about Elon and everything he does, I am beginning to wonder if, and I hate to say this, that there is a mole or something over at Starbase in Texas, and that SABOTAGE may be involed.


10 posted on 03/06/2025 3:59:00 PM PST by Dacula
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Except they were crashing well before Elon’s apparent political flip.


11 posted on 03/06/2025 3:59:42 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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>>SABOTAGE may be involed.

There is telemetry involved on everything. If something is being sabotaged, it’d be quickly identified and the saboteur will be caught and spend the rest of his days broke and in a small locked room to which he won’t have a key.


12 posted on 03/06/2025 4:01:05 PM PST by Malsua
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“second one in a row of those, right? Do they have another vehicle to fetch the astronauts Biden abandoned?”

No there was one in between this one and that one. Yes they have a different rocket system that goes to the space station


13 posted on 03/06/2025 4:01:42 PM PST by Fai Mao ( Democrats need to go to prison.)
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“...and that SABOTAGE may be involed.”

My first thought as well.


14 posted on 03/06/2025 4:01:50 PM PST by ryderann
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To: hoagy62

If sabotage were involved, the thing to sabotage would be the catching of Super Heavy Booster. That thing losing an engine at the last minute would take out the Texas launch facility.


15 posted on 03/06/2025 4:05:26 PM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary?)
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SpaceX uses a different, smaller booster, the Falcon 9, and a capsule called Dragon for human flight, and those are unaffected by today's launch.

Fai Mao, Test 7 also had a successful catch of the Super Heavy booster, but the Starship broke up over the Bahamas. This time Test 8 also had a successful catch, but Starship made it further into the flight before failure, but not much further.

16 posted on 03/06/2025 4:08:45 PM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: sopo; Fai Mao
SpaceX uses a different, smaller booster, the Falcon 9, and a capsule called Dragon for human flight, and those are unaffected by today's launch.

Fai Mao, Test 7 also had a successful catch of the Super Heavy booster, but the Starship broke up over the Bahamas. This time Test 8 also had a successful catch, but Starship made it further into the flight before failure, but not much further.

17 posted on 03/06/2025 4:08:52 PM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary?)
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thanks, so the one in between didn’t have the starship go to pieces?


18 posted on 03/06/2025 4:08:52 PM PST by sopo
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Fai Mao is mistaken.


19 posted on 03/06/2025 4:09:42 PM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary?)
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The one between was perfect or nearly so.


20 posted on 03/06/2025 4:09:50 PM PST by Fai Mao ( Democrats need to go to prison.)
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