SpaceX catches Mega Booster but Starship-7 lost in flight

[ThoughtCriminal]

Source: Space Daily

SpaceX successfully recovered its Super Heavy booster using its advanced launch tower "chopstick" arms, marking a significant step forward in reusable rocketry. However, the seventh test flight of Starship ended with the loss of the upper stage in orbit, according to company updates.


Read more: https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/SpaceX_catches_Mega_Booster_but_Starship_7_lost_in_flight_999.html

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Watching the coverage the upper stage engines started to go out one by one until only one of the outer engines was running. Then around 8 minutes all telemetry was lost. Early reports seem to indicate that the upper stage broke up.

[The Madcap]

1. Oops

Successful space flight isn't a given. It's very difficult. Maybe someday, the billionaire club will figure that out.

But I'm not counting on it.

[Voltaire2]

2. Maybe somebody ought to focus on his own businesses instead of everyone else's business. nt.

[AZ8theist]

12. Couldn't have said it better myself....

[Lovie777]

3. Billions again...........

if USA scientist were at least involved, just saying.

musk is milking the USA.

[ThoughtCriminal]

4. Starting to seem some video of debris re-entering atmosphere - video link

Over the Turks and Caicos Islands.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4MjHE8hUkHo

[AZ8theist]

13. WHEN will they learn you can't fly into the dome? You have to stay UNDER it.......

[Klarkashton]

5. Oh tough ass.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. Musk is having a bad day

Link to tweet

🚨#BREAKING: Debris was seen over the Caribbean after SpaceX's Starship broke apart during a test flight, creating a spectacular show in the sky.

📌#Caicos | #Islands

Watch as multiple footage shows debris lights up the skies as SpaceX successfully launched Starship Flight 7 at 4:37 PM CST from Starbase in Southern Texas. However, the mission has been confirmed as a failure, with the craft breaking apart mid-flight. This caused debris to reenter Earth’s atmosphere, creating a spectacular show over the Turks and Caicos Islands. Despite the failure, SpaceX achieved a significant milestone by successfully catching the rocket’s first booster for the second time. SpaceX has confirmed the event and is analyzing the data to improve future test flights

Link to tweet

[ThoughtCriminal]

7. That was an impressive "Unplanned Disassembly"

Amazing that someone captured an actual explosion.

[LeftInTX]

8. Well, I guess that jalopy isn't going to Mars!

[2naSalit]

9. Oh great...

More of skum's space trash getting in the way of billions of $$ of spacecrafts and satellites.

I have had enough of that charlatan. Fuck that guy.

[andy_smalls]

10. wait,what?

it's not getting in the way of anything, it's falling in the ocean. the debris is not in orbit.

[2naSalit]

11. Then why did...

I see that it was broken up in orbit? That means it's up there and will be until it falls.

Doesn't change my pov either way.

[muriel_volestrangler]

14. That was incorrect - it was never going to get into a full orbit

It was going to go high and fast (but not fast enough for orbit), release some "dummy satellites" to test the release procedure, and then attempt to come down, controlled, in the Indian Ocean.

[2naSalit]

15. Well...

Thanks, I still see it as pollution regardless of where the debris ends up.

All this money wasted on these pseudo-space programs that don't get us any progress on the ground, literally. I can get behind more space exploration after we clean up our act on the surface.

[RussBLib]

16. Falling in the ocean THIS time

...how about next time? Exploding after takeoff could rain debris all over South Texas and the cities here. Or elsewhere.

https://russblib.blogspot.com/?m=1