Posted on 03/06/2025 3:48:33 PM PST by Yo-Yo
Mechazilla has caught the Super Heavy booster!
thanks or the rundown.I grew up during project Mercury-Gemini-Apollo, and this kind of thing was all over the 3 networks we had at the time.
maybe because someone doesn’t know the difference between looses and loses...
Video
Starship breaks apart over Ragged Islands, Bahamas - Mar 6, 2025
https://rumble.com/v6q91ok-starship-breaks-apart-over-ragged-islands-bahamas-mar-6-2025.html?e9s=src_v1_upp
Video
Starship breaks apart over Ragged Islands, Bahamas - Mar 6, 2025
https://rumble.com/v6q91ok-starship-breaks-apart-over-ragged-islands-bahamas-mar-6-2025.html?e9s=src_v1_upp
“second one in a row of those, right? Do they have another vehicle to fetch the astronauts Biden abandoned?”
This one is under development. Not the one going to the ISS.
Mr. Clark has been at it for a long time...
it was spectacular!
The last two Starships were “upgraded” versions. Obviously, they’re still working out the bugs.
The “one in between” (the successful two Starship booster catches) had a good launch, good release, good flyback to the launch tower.
But.
One (or more) instruments (radar transmitters? Laser sights? ) on the launch needed for final positioning into the two recovery arms was damaged during liftoff.
With no final “last few feet” guidance, they dumped the booster into the water right offshore at slow speed.
Does anybody knows what the schedule is to rescue the stranded astronauts?
1 out of 2 ain’t bad.
“A bunch of tiles were purposely removed from the Starship, in order to stress test.”
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wstlVB5g1tA (some time after 7:00 into the video)
“looses”?
Both lost Starships suffered the same malfunction. Both Starships were the first of the Block II ships: a complete redesign from the successful Block I ships.
Sabotage has nothing to do with it - failure is expected. Success just paves the way for additions which in them selves can fail. Its failure to success or test to failure program. Nothing is expected to work the first time or the second.
Focus instead on the 3rd successful booster catch.
My wife had this to say about it...
“” If it happens once, it’s normal. It happens twice, it’s suspicious. If it happens a third time....it’s almost certainly deliberate.”
Again, I’m going off the insane hatred I’m seeing online by Libs and Dems again st Elon and the President.
Amen. And remember that the Block 1 Starships were more or less empty shells with engines and tanks. The Block II Starship is representative of an actual Starlink-launching vehicle, and this example was carrying simulated Starlink satellites for a test deployment (had the mission gone that far.)
This is SpaceX's modus operandi: Rapid design, iterations, evaluate failures. They don't spend years and years designing one version, then only launch when they're 100% sure it's going to work.
Right except it is expected that their will be failures with a totally new design - NASA uses the ‘100% sure’ model before launch. SpaceX uses the ‘lets go with what we got and see what happens’ model.
Consider it karma for threatening two million jobs while being too stupid to send an e-mail correctly.
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