People really put the faith of the entire American space program on Elon. It would be funny if it wasn’t so stupid.
SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight
Submitted 2 months ago by technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to technology@lemmy.world
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/19/spacexs-starship-blows-up-ahead-of-10th-test-flight/
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SalamenceFury@lemmy.world 2 months ago
weew@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
It’s less that people are putting faith in Elon (sure, some fanatics might be), but it’s that everyone else is somehow even worse.
SpaceX is actually getting stuff to space, despite their prototypes blowing up. Hell, even if this Starship thing is a complete failure and never works, their existing rocket, the Falcon, is still far beyond any of the competition.
The SLS: $10 Billion to develop a ship that recycles old Space shuttle parts, then costs $2-3 Billion per launch, and maybe can only launch one every 2 years.
ULA Vulcan: currently years late, still finding problems, and even after all that gets worked out, it can maybe do 6 launches a year?
SpaceX: 1-2 launches per week.
foggenbooty@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Let my try and distill that. SpaceX is capable of doing some good work, when Elon leaves them alone.
Remember, Starship is Elon’s napkin drawing idea of making a big cheap steel tube. Bigger and bader than everyone else! For a mission that doesn’t exist, which it’s not even designed properly for. Starship is 100% Elon’s blunder and he’s made so many insane promises for it that it’s dragging SpaceX down.
Starship is SpaceX’s Cybertruck.
Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Bezos seems pretty happy with space tourism he doesn’t wanna work for the government. Gotta kinda be sick to want to in the first place.
theherk@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Falcon 9 has launched over 500 mission with a very high success rate. Of course the bulk of advancement should be coming from NASA and we need to spend more there, but SpaceX is putting up big numbers in successful payload lifts.
Lembot_0003@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Boeing and someone else are trying too. Way behind Space X. So no, not “entire space program”…
Sxan@piefed.zip 2 months ago
Fuck all commercial dependency. Fully fund NASA, and let them like what they did back in the 60s, which no company could have done.
Stop relying on corporations to lead our space programs. It's too important to leave to grifters and corner cutters.
Warehouse@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
If Starship wasn’t constantly exploding you might have a point. Seems as though that the reality is that they’re all pretty much at the same spot but Elon wants to pretend that they aren’t.
wpb@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s not perfect, but capitalism is the best system we’ve got. It is only through competition on the free market that we would arrive at a space program this efficient and innovative. Imagine if the government tried to do this! They would’ve blown up a 100 rockets by now with nothing to show for it, and it would’ve cost tax payers billions of dollars. The innovation of SpaceX is humanity at it’s finest. For thousands of years we’ve looked up at the sky, and wondered what’s there, and now, thanks to the engineering chops of Elon Musk, it is within our grasp. Imagine that, sending a person to space. Maybe someday we’ll even be able to put someone on the moon!
Buffalox@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The efficiency of this is amazing, instead of actually sending it up, and waiting for it to blow up, they have figured out how to blow it up on the ground BEFORE launch. This is the kind of efficiency we need in government programs.
merdaverse@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Such a remarkable achievement! We should put capitalists on the Starship ASAP so they can enjoy the fruits of “their” labor!
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
this but unironically. send all the billionaires to mars!
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ngl, had me in the first half.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Good gods! Captain, The ambient sarcasm readings are off the charts!
catty@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s life Jim, but not as we know it.
Not as we know it.
Star Trekkin’ Across The Universe…
Valmond@lemmy.world 2 months ago
NGL got me in the first part :-)
diemartin@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I would ride a Honda rocket a hundred times before ever setting foot on anything developed by SpaceX
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I imagine rifing a rocket like final boss fight in Just Cause 2.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 2 months ago
reached an altitude of 890 feet
Kids science projects make reusable rockets that go higher.
foggenbooty@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s a test flight. Going higher was likely not the goal.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 2 months ago
reached an altitude of 890 feet
300 meters.
oyzmo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I think Honda has begun building spaceships too. Think they chose to build the type that don’t explode. link
Geodad@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Japanese cars are superior to American cars, why wouldn’t their rockets be?
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Japanese cars are superior to American cars
I had a high school friend who went on to become an engineer at General Motors. One of his first projects for them was tearing down an Infiniti and a Lexus when those cars first came on the market. He said that at the time, GM cars typically had between 300 and 400 production defects of varying severity. When they took apart the Infiniti, they found 2 production defects; when they took apart the Lexus, they found 0.
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Definitely agreed on cars, but Japan’s last few moon missions had several catastrophic failures unfortunately.
Crikeste@lemm.ee 2 months ago
We shouldn’t be building rockets PERIOD. They cost too much and are eventually only going to serve trillionaires.
FIX SHIT ON THE GROUND FIRST
That said,
They did a test from 300 meters, sure it’s cool but I think they have a LONG way to go before they are competetive.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
If you like SatNav, accurate weather tracking, and advanced intercontinental communication then ya like rockets ya dipshit.
While Id be the first to ban private rocket launches outright, we shouldn’t abandon the advances of the space age because of them.
Squirrelanna@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
We can do both? What’s a rocket scientist going to do about systemic oppression and the rise of fascism that excludes them from working on rockets still?
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
the thing is, when you build rockets, and they actually work, and put people on mars, you can reasonably demand that people who demand exponential growth actually go to mars, because earth is already full. this way, you can get rid of the billionaires.
13igTyme@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The front fell off.
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
it was towed out of the environment.
forgetful_fox@lemmy.world 2 months ago
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s not a big deal when you’re blowing up someone else’s money with no real accountability.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I mean… its a big deal if you’re anywhere near the launchpad. Or, in or around South Padre Island.
Also can’t help but notice that Starbase, Texas is practically hugging the US/Mexico border. Almost as though Abbott didn’t want this shit landing in his own backyard when it failed.
TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It also helps to be as far south as possible. You get to use more momentum to help get orbit, if I understand it correctly.
IIRC, that’s why NASA launches from Florida. That and the coast making launch failures safer.
(But I am not a physicist.)
JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
I mean, SpaceX is a private company owned by Musk…
Srh@lemmy.world 1 month ago
…That takes money from the tax payers in the forms of grants and contracts (that it has not fulfilled).
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 month ago
And?
PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 2 months ago
Was he on it? If he was this is a complete success.
If he wasn’t.
Better luck next time I guess?
victorz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Elon is stupid, but I’m thinking he’s not so stupid as to board one of his own rockets.
PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 2 months ago
He’s a chicken shit ? Why are all these tough guy conservatives such pussies
expatriado@lemmy.world 2 months ago
idk, got to check that “is Musk already dead” tracker community
PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
If this is real, please post the link!
echodot@feddit.uk 1 month ago
It’s getting more efficient by the day. They used to have to launch it into the air before it had blow up. This way it saves time
Stovetop@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Waiting for the SpaceX bros to tell everyone how this was actually a good thing because it was supposed to happen and means everything is going well.
real_squids@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
As long as nobody was harmed they could blow up a hundred rockets for all I care. Maybe it’ll even help with competition, like make other companies switch launch vehicles
Stovetop@lemmy.world 2 months ago
People live around there, so harm is definitely being done to the air they breathe and the environment they live in.
skittle07crusher@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
“iT wAs A rApId UnScHeDuLeD dIsSaSsEmBlY”
seven_phone@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s not a starship, at best it’s a low Earth orbit ship.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
For a couple of minutes.
pyre@lemmy.world 2 months ago
good.
sad that he wasn’t on it though.
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I feel bad for all the engineers etc who are working really hard on these projects, only to see their efforts tarnished by the flyblown image of the wanker who owns the company.
drmoose@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If you told me that I’d be cheering for space rockets exploding 10 years ago I would have called you crazy. Incredible how much damage that fiend has done to our society.
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s incredible, isn’t it? I used to be so stoked on space exploration and all the science that goes with it. Still am, really, but my enthusiasm has cooled markedly once billionaires started throwing dick-shaped space missiles around for no other reason than being able to.
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Whoa. a subpar Elon project? SAY IT ISN’T SO!
elucubra@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
I hate the guy’s guts as much as anybody else, but he has kickstarted a space race, and an EV market. Credit where it’s due.
And yeah I know, rich daddy, no inventions, all evolutionary, etc. But here we are.
Siresly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
You do not hate the guy’s guts as much as anybody else, or as much as is reasonable. You do not in fact have to give it to the Nazi scum. Any success or credit is due to the employees of the companies the inept pathetic narcissistic pro-fascism scumfuck is undeservedly running, often on fire and into the ground. If the resources he’s hoarding would be allocated by a reasonable, competent and humanist entity, we would all be much better off. Musk would be better off the planet. Shame that he missed this flight.
Auli@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Give credit to his employees he’s done nothing.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What space race?
NASA us working on a shoestring budget and managed to run some very successful missions. The Artemis Program is/was very succesful, and what does NASA get?
Budget cuts. Money diverted to SpaceX who, under Elon, has yet to do a single succesful mission (the Dragon capsule and reusable rockets were both projects that Elon bought. Starship is the first project that Elon directed).
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 month ago
kickstarted a space race
hah no
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 1 month ago
He’s just there to steal credit. Just like everything he’s been a part of.
bieren@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
“Look at what I can do” -Elon musk while throwing a Nazi salute
Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 1 month ago
i thought Nazis were at least competent at making rockets.
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Only Nazis from the Nazi region of Germany, any other kind of Nazi is just a sparkling asshole
OCATMBBL@lemmy.world 2 months ago
How many times does this gotta happen before we start calling them missiles instead of rockets?
breakingcups@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s kinda fun to be living in a time where rockets regularly blow up again. Apart from, you know, everything else going on and not wanting astronauts to die.
MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Honestly, rocket development has always been filled with explosions - the Saturn V had like 6 engine-out events during Apollo and the early Falcon 9 tests were just as explosive. what’s different now is we get to see the failures in HD livestreams instead of classified footage that would’ve been buried in the 60s.
Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 1 month ago
that’s how we know Musk isn’t a Nazi, Nazis could make rockets.
/s
(he is a nazi, just an incompetent one)
drhodl@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m all for mankind colonizing the stars, but I don’t want that A hole down a K hole Elmo involved in any way. I don’t trust the cunt not to have a back door into the colony, that he opens whenever his fee fee’s get hurt, or if his K hole runs dry.
Coreidan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Oh please. Elon will long be dead before we are ever seriously colonizing mars.
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
The next explosion will occur on the assembly line. Now I call that progress!
jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Unplanned rapid disassembly?
THX1138@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Thoughts and prayers… lol
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
We can’t even handle being a multi-country species, maybe Elon should dial back the sci-fi “multi-planet” miniseries playing in his head…
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
It’s certainly not Honda-level reliability.
MisterOwl@lemmy.world 2 months ago
oh no! anyway…
biofaust@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I now have the Street Fighter voice in my head going:
“Honda Wins!”
For the killjoy that will come pointing out that SpaceX is at another level of development etc., yes, I know that. Japan also has a constitution written by the US that doesn’t permit them to have long-range missiles.
wewbull@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Hardly. Honda have just replicated what Falcon 9 has been doing every week for years.
Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I miss Reddit so some musky can tell me about how blowing up your spaceships is part of the engineering process and how this is good.
they were funny
immutable@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Hold on let me remove most of my brain.
This is so much more efficient than the shuttle program. You see when we made the space shuttle it cost the American taxpayer billions and in the end we owned and could operate the shuttle for the common good.
This was spacex spends billions of dollars (that the government gives them) and in the end they own and operate the spaceship for profit and can charge the American taxpayer anything they want to access space.
Musk is Tony stark!
Sorry I couldn’t get stupid enough to make this authentic.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Have they published its drug test results yet?
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s better efficiency. It gets to the blowing up part faster than before
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Getting it out of the way so the engineers can enjoy the long weekend.
BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
MAYBE if we Cut the FAA and OTHER Regulatory agencies it’ll not Explode next Time?
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Musk is going to be PISSED when he finds out there is no bureau of physics he can subsume or destroy from within. I believe one Rush Stockton came to a similar conclusion, if he indeed had time for that conclusion to even form before perishing.
ghosthacked@lemmy.wtf 2 months ago
SpaceGateX
Can’t wait for the documentary
scaramobo@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
Elon should really pilot the next starship himself. Just put a small 1 person capsule on top (or maybe even 5 people so he can take some of his billionaire friends along) and connect a playstation controller to the engines. Stockton did it, and he made several succesful trips. What you do yourself, you do better!!