Break out the marshmallows
SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight
Submitted 10 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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tehn00bi@lemmy.world 10 months ago
catloaf@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Rocket fuel is toxic. Don’t cook with it. Don’t touch or breathe it. Don’t even look at it.
Once it’s burned it’s mostly safe, aside from the usual problems with combustion products.
tehn00bi@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Is LOX and methane really that bad?
biofaust@lemmy.world 10 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 10 months ago
Hardly. Honda have just replicated what Falcon 9 has been doing every week for years.
biofaust@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Here comes the killjoy!
oyzmo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I think Honda has begun building spaceships too. Think they chose to build the type that don’t explode. link
13igTyme@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The front fell off.
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
it was towed out of the environment.
Geodad@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Japanese cars are superior to American cars, why wouldn’t their rockets be?
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 10 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 10 months ago
Definitely agreed on cars, but Japan’s last few moon missions had several catastrophic failures unfortunately.
Crikeste@lemm.ee 10 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.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 10 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.
Squirrelanna@lemmynsfw.com 10 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?
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 10 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.
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s better efficiency. It gets to the blowing up part faster than before
seven_phone@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s not a starship, at best it’s a low Earth orbit ship.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
For a couple of minutes.
breakingcups@lemmy.world 10 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 10 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.
wewbull@feddit.uk 10 months ago
Comparing an engine out where the mission went on without issue and a huge fireball on the pad is apples and oranges.
victorz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Is the bee okay?
Mihies@programming.dev 10 months ago
Iterations are getting more frequent, which is a good sign, right? Right?
SalamenceFury@lemmy.world 10 months 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 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 months ago
Boeing and someone else are trying too. Way behind Space X. So no, not “entire space program”…
Warehouse@lemmy.ca 10 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.
Sxan@piefed.zip 10 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.
Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If I worked building rockets for him, I’d make sure they didn’t lift off too.
THX1138@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Thoughts and prayers… lol
DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 10 months ago
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Getting it out of the way so the engineers can enjoy the long weekend.
pivot_root@lemmy.world 10 months ago
What long weekend? Their asswipe of a boss doesn’t believe in anything but the 80-hour workweek for employees.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Nah, their rocket blowed up. It’s time to get stinko!
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 10 months ago
At least they didn’t wreck (more of) the environment and nearly down passenger planes with this one.
Progress!
jaybone@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Unplanned rapid disassembly?
Stovetop@lemmy.world 10 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.
skittle07crusher@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
“iT wAs A rApId UnScHeDuLeD dIsSaSsEmBlY”
real_squids@sopuli.xyz 10 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 10 months ago
People live around there, so harm is definitely being done to the air they breathe and the environment they live in.
GeekFTW@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Well at least it was a decent looking explosion?
BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
MAYBE if we Cut the FAA and OTHER Regulatory agencies it’ll not Explode next Time?
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 10 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.
scaramobo@lemmynsfw.com 10 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!!
ghosthacked@lemmy.wtf 10 months ago
SpaceGateX
Can’t wait for the documentary
MisterOwl@lemmy.world 10 months ago
oh no! anyway…
PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 10 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 10 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 10 months ago
He’s a chicken shit ? Why are all these tough guy conservatives such pussies
expatriado@lemmy.world 10 months ago
idk, got to check that “is Musk already dead” tracker community
PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
If this is real, please post the link!
frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 10 months ago
Musk’s starships are blowing up like his reputation 😂