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
SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight
Submitted 1 day 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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echodot@feddit.uk 8 hours ago
Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 7 hours ago
that’s how we know Musk isn’t a Nazi, Nazis could make rockets.
/s
(he is a nazi, just an incompetent one)
wpb@lemmy.world 18 hours 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!
merdaverse@lemmy.world 14 hours 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 12 hours ago
this but unironically. send all the billionaires to mars!
Buffalox@lemmy.world 15 hours 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.
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Ngl, had me in the first half.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Good gods! Captain, The ambient sarcasm readings are off the charts!
catty@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
It’s life Jim, but not as we know it.
Not as we know it.
Star Trekkin’ Across The Universe…
Valmond@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
NGL got me in the first part :-)
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
It’s not a big deal when you’re blowing up someone else’s money with no real accountability.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 hours 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 10 hours 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 7 hours ago
I mean, SpaceX is a private company owned by Musk…
Srh@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
…That takes money from the tax payers in the forms of grants and contracts (that it has not fulfilled).
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
And?
BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
MAYBE if we Cut the FAA and OTHER Regulatory agencies it’ll not Explode next Time?
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 1 day 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 18 hours ago
SpaceGateX
Can’t wait for the documentary
scaramobo@lemmynsfw.com 17 hours 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!!
bieren@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
“Look at what I can do” -Elon musk while throwing a Nazi salute
Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 7 hours ago
i thought Nazis were at least competent at making rockets.
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
Only Nazis from the Nazi region of Germany, any other kind of Nazi is just a sparkling asshole
bieren@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
German Nazis. Not South African immigrant nazis.
Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 7 hours 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 3 hours 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.
Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 1 hour ago
🤮
i hate even tax payers pay to develop something, but a private company gets all the intellectual property and profits.
same thing happend when the COVID vaccine.
diemartin@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
I would ride a Honda rocket a hundred times before ever setting foot on anything developed by SpaceX
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I imagine rifing a rocket like final boss fight in Just Cause 2.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
reached an altitude of 890 feet
Kids science projects make reusable rockets that go higher.
foggenbooty@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
It’s a test flight. Going higher was likely not the goal.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
reached an altitude of 890 feet
300 meters.
SalamenceFury@lemmy.world 1 day ago
People really put the faith of the entire American space program on Elon. It would be funny if it wasn’t so stupid.
weew@lemmy.ca 1 day 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 10 hours 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 20 hours 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 1 day 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 1 day ago
Boeing and someone else are trying too. Way behind Space X. So no, not “entire space program”…
Sxan@piefed.zip 1 day 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 1 day 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.
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 11 hours ago
The next explosion will occur on the assembly line. Now I call that progress!
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 10 hours 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…
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
is this normal i don’t know anything about housing cocks
oyzmo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I think Honda has begun building spaceships too. Think they chose to build the type that don’t explode. link
Geodad@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Japanese cars are superior to American cars, why wouldn’t their rockets be?
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 15 hours 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 17 hours ago
Definitely agreed on cars, but Japan’s last few moon missions had several catastrophic failures unfortunately.
Crikeste@lemm.ee 1 day 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 1 day 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 19 hours 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 12 hours 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 19 hours ago
The front fell off.
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 hours ago
it was towed out of the environment.
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 hours ago
Whoa. a subpar Elon project? SAY IT ISN’T SO!
elucubra@sopuli.xyz 18 hours 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.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
He’s just there to steal credit. Just like everything he’s been a part of.
Siresly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 hours 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 11 hours ago
Give credit to his employees he’s done nothing.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
kickstarted a space race
hah no
Tattorack@lemmy.world 17 hours 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).
forgetful_fox@lemmy.world 1 day ago
drmoose@lemmy.world 20 hours 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 17 hours 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.
EverXIII@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Surely they will blame on immigrants too…
AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml 4 hours ago
I’ve been wondering why they don’t blow up more regularly. I imagine a few long range sniper shots would make them explode easily. They should be relatively easy to hit, seeing how big they are.
OCATMBBL@lemmy.world 1 day ago
How many times does this gotta happen before we start calling them missiles instead of rockets?
pyre@lemmy.world 1 day ago
good.
sad that he wasn’t on it though.
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 19 hours 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.
PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 1 day 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 1 day ago
Elon is stupid, but I’m thinking he’s not so stupid as to board one of his own rockets.
PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 1 day ago
He’s a chicken shit ? Why are all these tough guy conservatives such pussies
expatriado@lemmy.world 1 day ago
idk, got to check that “is Musk already dead” tracker community
PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
If this is real, please post the link!
seven_phone@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s not a starship, at best it’s a low Earth orbit ship.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Well, now it’s recycling, right?
floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
For a couple of minutes.
Stovetop@lemmy.world 1 day 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 1 day 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
skittle07crusher@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
“iT wAs A rApId UnScHeDuLeD dIsSaSsEmBlY”
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
It’s certainly not Honda-level reliability.
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Whoop whoop! I hope it caused a lot of damage.
Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 7 hours ago
a lot of tax payer money just give byebye, mostly, part of it went straight into Musk’s pocket
drhodl@lemmy.world 1 day 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 1 day ago
Oh please. Elon will long be dead before we are ever seriously colonizing mars.
breakingcups@lemmy.world 1 day 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 1 day 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.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 16 hours ago
Have they published its drug test results yet?
obinice@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
hehe
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 43 minutes ago
NASA should partner with Honda.
How much taxpayer money was tossed at the fucking bottle rocket failure?