- SpaceX’s eighth Starship launch ended in a “rapid unscheduled disassembly”.
- The company reportedly lost communication with the rocket before it began tumbling and eventually, blew up.
- The Super Heavy Rocket returned to Earth safely and was caught by Mechzilla.
Ah, yes, the SpaceX method of rapid development and iterative design by… testing in production and making debris rain over the Caribbean, disrupting air traffic in the region. I’m done with fanboys calling this method genius. “Oh, it would make the production lines idle for months”. Bullshit. Just make it right. Compare it to the Saturn V, it only needed one test flight to orbit and never had a major failure, and the Saturn V had components welded and drilled by hand, with 60’s tech.
reddig33@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I wonder if Elon has driven off a good chunk of his quality SpaceX employees yet?
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Despite what he may say at times. He’s not necessary for SpaceX operations. Gwynne Shotwell runs the day to day company, and they aren’t public so no need to say anything publicly for headlines like he does with Tesla.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Sure, but that is a valid concern nonetheless. One major reason for the early successes of SpaceX and Tesla was their ability to attract top talent. I don’t think anyone with any self respect wants to work there these days.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
The topic of conversation is how tons of people don’t want to be associated with anything eel-on-musk is doing anymore after he more or less took the mask off, did his “weird hand motion (twice in a row, on national television, one of which was in the direction of orangeboi)”, and then started (and is continuing) to take a chainsaw to silly little government agencies like the CDC, NOAA, CFPB, Social Security Administration, and so on.
Most smart people don’t like dumb and evil people. I would not at all be shocked to learn SpaceX is facing some serious brain drain.