SpaceX Launches Starship Flight Test (LIVESTREAM) April 20, 2023. Launch window opens at 8:30am CT.

SpaceX ^ | 04/20/2023 | Self

[know.your.why]

Heeere we goooo. Fingers toes and eyes crossed for a successful test flight of the 33-Raptor engine Superheavy booster and Starship first time into space. Both vehicles are planned to splash down...the booster in the Gulf of Mexico and Starship off of Hawaii.

[Ledgerfreedom]

Spinning, big fail???

[PIF]

rocket in spin not good

[Lazamataz]

Doesnt look good

[PIF]

No it has passed several milestones all good reach Max Q

[Ledgerfreedom]

And that’s why I’d never get on this thing without an abort mode.

[House Atreides]

Rapid, non-nominal disassembly… as they call it.

[logi_cal869]

What an absolutely pathetic demonstration of gaslighting as the vehicle exploded.

It was clear the panel of 3 idiots were instructed to maintain smiles through any negative event.

I’m now more anti-Musk than ever. Just another government agency (’government affiliated’). Perhaps worse.

[SamAdams76]

SpaceX is calling this a success because it cleared the tower and the first stage separated as planned. Looks like the second state never separated, causing Starship to spin out of control and fall into the ocean.

This is why they call them test flights. I'm sure they will try again and will eventually get it correct.

[Old Student]

Well, Starship go boom. Hope they learned a heck of a lot from it!

[DCBryan1]

Did it blow up!?

[PIF]

Launch pad in intact which is huge, reached Max Q (max stress) also huge.

[McGruff]

That was exciting to watch.

[telescope115]

The SpaceX commentators can sugarcoat it all they want, it was a fail.
They did get good data, I’m sure, but it was disappointing.
Gotta break a few eggs to make that omelet…

Still historic!

[Lazamataz]

That’s like saying “The plane blew up but the runways is fine.”

[PIF]

It was a TEST!! Which it passed handily!

[BlueStateRightist]

Well, no one died.

[logi_cal869]

"Development" (i.e., catastrophic vehicle failure).

Can you see the strings pulling on their cheeks? You could certainly hear it. /s

[gathersnomoss]

Yay.... it blew up....such a success!!!!!

Clown World!

[hoagy62]

Yeah, they had a RUD (Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly) after the Starship failed to separate.

They did say if they got it off the pad, it’d be considered a success. In their pre-launch commentary, they kept saying the phrase “if we get that far”. At least they had a reasonable expectation of what might happen.

I have a feeling that if the same thing was done at NASA, heads would roll.

And....the thing made it well past the point that the Soviet N-1 ever did.

[1Old Pro]

That’s like saying “The plane blew up but the runways is fine.”

The cherry bomb that I didn't quite get to throw blew up real nice, and I still have 3 fingers!