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Massive explosion rocks SpaceX Texas facility, Starship engine in flames
(interestingengineering.com)
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In the early days of Starship I was a little bit optimistic. The "move fast and break things" strategy had quickly succeeded when SpaceX was trying to land boosters, so I was hopeful that each exploding Starship was one step closer to a working spacecraft.
But at this point it's just sad. I don't see anything resembling progress.
I think the boosters were a "fake it till we make it" thing that luckily worked out. I don't think Starship will ever make it into space.
Hey, go boo the actual bad shit Musk is doing. Starship is an amazing feat of human engineering. One that has already made orbit, btw.
How's Musk doing that?
He's not, real engineers are. That's my point.
Funny, because what you implied is that it was Musk doing it.
When a company of his does bad it's his fault, when one does good it's other people's fault?
The guy's a fucking prick, don't get me wrong.
Yeah, I despise Musk but the circlejerk "it's his fault it failed / he has nothing to do with its success" (especially on Lemmy) is just ridiculous
The implication is that this guy's hate is coming from somewhere else ✈️
Ok. Boo.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-a-new-space-race-could-be-harming-the-earths-atmosphere
https://www.space.com/rocket-exhaust-pollution-upper-atmosphere
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021EF002612
Sooty exhaust from RP-1 and aluminum oxide particulates from discarded upper stages will not be a problem with Starship.
Starship uses methalox, and the upper stage is designed to be reusable.
And the lower stages?
Also reusable, like Falcon 9.