Considered a success because it wasn’t meant to reach orbit, but was meant to splash down in the Pacific. My man, it did neither of those things.
Test flight for SpaceX's massive Starship rocket reaches space, explodes again
Submitted 1 year ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to astronomy@mander.xyz
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/11/18/spacex-rocket-test-flight/71634256007/
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Flyberius@hexbear.net 1 year ago
huginn@feddit.it 1 year ago
Considered a success because the only issue they had was being forced to destroy it because it was off course.
Which is obviously the correct decision and says nothing about the proof of concept.
Mardoniush@hexbear.net 11 months ago
Rocket fall down Mr Musk.
smock9@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Considered a success because the stated goal was to reach stage separation which it did successfully pass through.