International "Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly" (AKA SpaceX StarShip Blows Up)

[Deleted member 585708]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/science-environment-65330571

Earlier we saw SpaceX founder Elon Musk sitting in the company control room as his team prepared for the Starship's launch.

Afterwards, Musk tweeted his congratulations to the team for "an exciting test launch".

While the Starship did explode a few minutes after take-off, Musk said his team "learned a lot for the next test launch in a few months".

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Extremely creative wording for an unplanned explosion, lol, but the SpaceX team reckon this was a success.

 

[Cool Hand Luke]

Sucks

 

[Deleted member 585708]

Sucks

They don't seem that upset about it, to be fair, the woman on the video says that it was all about the launch and everything after that was 'icing on the cake' - I'm not sure if they had plans to bring it down or not, but they seem casual about it 'rapidly disassembling in an unscheduled manner' ha

 

[Cool Hand Luke]

They don't seem that upset about it, to be fair, the woman on the video says that it was all about the launch and everything after that was 'icing on the cake' - I'm not sure if they had plans to bring it down or not, but they seem casual about it 'rapidly disassembling in an unscheduled manner' ha

I haven't watched the video but sounds like damage control to me.

 

[K1levelgrappler]

Good thing there was no crew on board or else they might have rapidly disassembled too

 

[DragRacer]

This was an R+D test, no?

 

[Fox by the Sea]

is normal.

 

[CantCucktheTuck]

It's almost as if a certain group of people are happy at the thought of an American space program perceived failure. This isn't the gotcha moment they think it is.

 

[bref]

It's almost as if a certain group of people are happy at the thought of an American space program perceived failure. This isn't the gotcha moment they think it is.

 

[WhitestKidU’Know]

Yeah, that’s an explosion if I have ever seen one. It rapidly disassembled into a ball of fire lol

They probably aren’t happy it blew up but it not the first time it’s happened and it won’t be the last. Trying to create something new takes some trial and error. That is why they do test launches.

 

[AWilder]

how many billions of tax payer money did this thing cost?

 

[Lord_Impaler]

I’m gonna start using that term when something I’ve built falls apart lol.

 

[Fugazy]

how many billions did this thing cost?

tree fiddy

 

[Fugazy]

Incredible.

I don't really think it's funny to see our space program struggle. Hopefully they sort it out and can get to hopping around this solar system before I die.

 

[White Whale]

I remember reading a study that said rich successful people tend to be positive and don't look at things as failures just learning experiences.

 

[D3THRONED]

this is how research and development works...

 

[Whippy McGee]

Good thing for SpaceX with NASA rarely sending anything of significance up.

 

[Mikeydontgiva]

This wasn't unplanned at all. This was pretty much expected. Not the best possible outcome of the launch, but certainly not a failure.

 

[Belaya Smert]

is normal.

*In Joe Biden’s America

 

[Err]

This was a success. It’s a first launch.