SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft exploded on Thursday minutes after lifting off from Texas, dooming an attempt to deploy mock satellites in the second consecutive failure this year for Elon Musk’s Mars rocket program.
Several videos on social media showed fiery debris streaking through the dusk skies near south Florida and the Bahamas after Starship’s breakup in space, which occurred shortly after it began to spin uncontrollably with its engines cut off, a SpaceX livestream of the mission showed.
The failure comes just more than a month after the company’s seventh Starship flight also ended in an explosive failure. The back-to-back mishaps occurred in early mission phases that SpaceX has easily surpassed previously, indicating serious setbacks for a program Musk has sought to speed up this year.
SpaceX can still pivot to a fireworks company and let decades old soviet rockets take people to the ISS. I’m sure that DOGE will cut the wasteful government grants this company gets.
To be fair, only their crazy concept rocket keeps falling tests. The actual in use rockets have literally the best success/safety rate in history. Just a shame a Nazi owns the company.
Fair enough. The engineering is pretty impressive. It would be even more impressive if it was owned by the public rather than a MEGAlomaniac high on ketamine
Maybe the internal GPS was looking for the Gulf of Mexico and just gave up?
Good
Remember that Elon said we would land on Mars by 2024?
We haven’t even started thinking about a Mars misson lmao
That was always absurd, on the face of it. Heck, I don’t even see the appeal of going to Mars.
Heck, I don’t even see the appeal of going to Mars
There’s no people there
Well, that’s one thing it has going for it.
Obama era had everyone optimistic about the future.
We also desperately wanted any space program. The space shuttles were retired in 2011 and we were reliant on Russia for flights at that point.
Musk said the things progressives wanted to hear, but eventually we wanted substance. That’s when he shifted to catering to conservatives, who are ok with being lied to.
This is what happens when you cut regulations and fire the people who oversee quality and safety over stupidity and greed.
Hmm maybe the FAA should not have cleared the flight since the rocket in January wasn’t fully investigated to completion. You rush complex engineering and science and things go wrong.
Then I saw a second beast, coming out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb, but it spoke like a dragon. It exercised all the authority of the first beast on its behalf, and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose fatal wound had been healed. And it performed great signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to the earth in full view of the people. Because of the signs it was given power to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived the inhabitants of the earth.
Oh, fuck me…
I keep saying this, but christianity ended at the siege of munster.
If that’s the case, then Islam ended at The Siege of Fort Tabarsi.
don’t know enough about that part of history, I mostly know that the contenders for ‘last real christians’ were either the pre-munster anabaptists, or weirdo fanatics like john brown. it’s not about the killing; christians had been killing each other for a WHILE before that.
:p If they were the beasts, the “godly” would line up to take the mark.
American evangelicals are fucking ushering him in. I’m not religious, but if it’s all actually real, at least they will burn in hell.
Looking forward to SpaceX fans continuing to talk about how much SpaceX is insulated from musk’s stupidity thanks to Shotwell.
The lady who thought you could cram a thousand people into a starship and do passenger ICBM launches?
The lady who was convinced this would be allowed by any government, anywhere in the world? A giant death tube with a thousand people hurtling towards a city at near orbital speeds, with the pinky promise that their engines will relight being the only things saving your city from ruin every day.
She’s a fucking idiot too.
Was a boom.boom or kaboom? I didn’t watch became I don’t give a single shit about any of that nazis companies anymore.
Remember when the FAA grounded him till he got this fix and then Musk told the FAA head to retire or be fired?
I think it’s wild that “better times” is now when corruption wasn’t so naked.
Remember a few years back when Trump was bemoaning Elon’s rockets to nowhere?
Pepperidge… Forbes remembers.
That article is a wild. Feels like we are in a story with terrible foreshadowing and retcons
I think we’re in the Matrix where the machines have found a superior alternate fuel source.
Wait until you hear of Vance criticising Trump.
All billionaires really care about is money. And anything they say is what they think is in their best interest to earn more money. Nothing a billionaire says or does is sincere.
Yes, but this is even worse than the naked and rapacious pursuit of profit.
It is failing at even producing profit, literally burning through billions of dollars, not even accomplishing anything.
We are now at the stage where basically all the wealthiest and most powerful people are so high on their own supply, so deluded into believing they are geniuses, they are seemingly burning down the entire economy through sheer incompetence.
Trump seems to genuienly believe that international balances of trade just work the same as a hotel’s revenues vs costs.
Elon seems to genuienly believe his incompetent approach to engineering will actually result in market viable products.
… And seemingly at least half of Americans are just part of these personality cults, all facts and evidence be damned.
It sure sucks to be alive duringthe time period of humanity being filtered by the great filter.
You’re forgetting the lesson of the economics collapse of 2008. Everybody suffered except for the wealthy. They actually profited off that collapse. People’s 401k’s were being wiped clean… well, who was buying those shares at record low prices?
Point being, if it looks like Musk and Trump are trying to burn down the economy, it is not through incompetence, it is knowing they will only gain power from this collapse.
I hear what you are saying, and I do agree that the wealthy become more wealthy and the poor become more poor after a large collapse.
But I honestly do not think Trump and Elon are actually trying to fail this hard intentionally.
I genuinely believe they are so completely full of themselves that they think what they are doing… will actually work as they say it will.
The result is still the same, but I truly think that Trump and Elon will either be surprised when this all blows up in their faces, or further retreat into delusion, like Hitler in his bunker.
The people around them that are encouraging their actions? Many of them probably are smart enough to know how this will play out, but a lot of them are also very, very stupid.
Again I completely agree that the net outcome is easily discernible to a non lunatic, and a lot of non lunatics are cynically playing into all this… but we live in an era of increasingly widespread lunacy, of true believers that will have complete dissasociative personality collapse when they see all their ideas were wrong, or invent their own delusional alternate realities where they were in fact right and all bad news is deep state fake news illuminati lies.
I really do think a lot of these idiots believe their own bullshit to a significant degree and are not lying in the sense of saying one thing will happen when they know another thing actually will.
They’re just actually insane.
The only real difference between Mike Lindell and Elon Musk is Elon got more buy in. Their mindsets are the same: They’re right, because they believe they are, and to the extent they have money and influence, they’ll invent their own realities to maintain their delusions.
I mean SpaceX has had a much longer history of telling federal agencies (especially the EPA) to go fuck themselves, launching anyway, and having absolutely fuck all for repercussions.
We spent millions on the stainless dildo flying machine. The ruzzians used a pencil.
…Its the year 2026, January… What feelings like a decade of misadministration has come to fruition. China has “developed” the most advanced paper-like electronic sheet material with a brain interface. We use a pencil now. Graphite! Who knew!
The world’s a pretty crazy place right now. If we put aside personalities and politics for a moment and focus on the engineering achievements, SpaceX is doing groundbreaking work. A few explosions here and there are part of the R&D process — they’re just big and obvious enough that they’re easy for us to spectate. Given the success of their Falcon 9 platform, that’s a cost they can easily eat and a risk enticing enough to take. NASA engineers a generation ago were similarly breaking ground on their frontier, be it orbiting the moon or preventing fires in space by avoiding free floating graphite particles 😉
Meaningless if the end goal is murdering some people while helping others.
Can you explain further? How is SpaceX’s goal to murder people? That feels misplaced and I’d love understand what you mean!
Elon is selling access to the net to ruzzians invading Ukraine. How is that misplaced?
I’m embarrassed to have interviewed by that shit company back before their first rocket made it.
I always forget about that. Do you think that reflects more on Elon or SpaceX employees?
I wouldn’t work there if the goal was empowering that asshole with murderous tools.
Fingers crossed that musk was on that rocket!!
Are those astronauts back on earth yet? No? Still stranded on the ISS? Okay…
Right, they’ve perfected the rocket, now we just need to load Elon onto the next flight.
I hope a space X employee is making these fail on purpose and keeps doing it
The hidden cost of 60-hour work weeks.
