Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket explodes in second test flight | CNN

I really wish they'd stop putting Musk's name on things like this. He didn't design the engines, he didn't plan the flight path, he did nothing but throw a bunch of money at a company because he's obsessed with Mars.

Alright, let me clear something up.

This is literally rocket science. The process to put humans into space is literally done this way, for this exact reason. They had two key primary objectives for this launch:

1. Successful ignition and control of 33 raptor engines in first stage.
2. Successful hot separation into second stage.

The first stage separated entirely and gained plenty of distance before it did explode.

The second stage flew for several minutes before the automated emergency flight termination kicked in and destroyed it.

All of the data that they were recording will pinpoint the failures in the return of the first stage, and the destruction in the second stage. They would not have that data if they did not do this test and nothing went wrong.

So, actually kinda successful.

What a shitty title. The launch was an absolute success.

Did he blame the Jews for it blowing up?

lol: “experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly”. That’s one way to describe it!

There's no shame in highlighting what went right and still acknowledging what went terribly wrong.

Censoring the latter prevents improvements. No need for fanboyism.

It weirds me out how many people want to get a brain implant done by a company of this guy

eh... it looks like hot-staging still has some bugs to work out, but the 2nd stage worked just fine (and since that's the part that matters, the end fate of the first stage is irrelevant)

good test all in all

I wonder what the simulation showed was going to happen compared to the actual flight. Would give you a real metric of progress.

Here's the everyday astronaut livestream of the launch: https://www.youtube.com/live/6na40SqzYnU?t=27150

To late for Indipendence Day, to early for New Year - But what a splendid fireworks!

Explosion at T+03:20

Wow. Was not expecting that from the rocket.

how nice for mexico

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He certainly didn't have to be all anti-Semitic to deflect attention from this failure. It's telling.

Haha good, fuck that fascist piglet.

Back to the drawing board. Yeah, I know they are with the sliderules.

Look, I really want to like SpaceX and enjoy all their successes and so on.

But it's just not. going. to. happen. And they know why. This isn't complicated.