SpaceX catches Mega Booster but Starship-7 lost in flight
Source: Space Daily
SpaceX successfully recovered its Super Heavy booster using its advanced launch tower "chopstick" arms, marking a significant step forward in reusable rocketry. However, the seventh test flight of Starship ended with the loss of the upper stage in orbit, according to company updates.
Read more: https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/SpaceX_catches_Mega_Booster_but_Starship_7_lost_in_flight_999.html
Watching the coverage the upper stage engines started to go out one by one until only one of the outer engines was running. Then around 8 minutes all telemetry was lost. Early reports seem to indicate that the upper stage broke up.
The Madcap
(742 posts)Successful space flight isn't a given. It's very difficult. Maybe someday, the billionaire club will figure that out.
But I'm not counting on it.
Voltaire2
(15,017 posts)AZ8theist
(6,610 posts)Lovie777
(15,521 posts)if USA scientist were at least involved, just saying.
musk is milking the USA.
ThoughtCriminal
(14,394 posts)Over the Turks and Caicos Islands.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4MjHE8hUkHo
AZ8theist
(6,610 posts)Klarkashton
(2,420 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(156,451 posts)Link to tweet
📌#Caicos | #Islands
Watch as multiple footage shows debris lights up the skies as SpaceX successfully launched Starship Flight 7 at 4:37 PM CST from Starbase in Southern Texas. However, the mission has been confirmed as a failure, with the craft breaking apart mid-flight. This caused debris to reenter Earths atmosphere, creating a spectacular show over the Turks and Caicos Islands. Despite the failure, SpaceX achieved a significant milestone by successfully catching the rockets first booster for the second time. SpaceX has confirmed the event and is analyzing the data to improve future test flights
Link to tweet
ThoughtCriminal
(14,394 posts)Amazing that someone captured an actual explosion.
LeftInTX
(31,292 posts)2naSalit
(94,178 posts)More of skum's space trash getting in the way of billions of $$ of spacecrafts and satellites.
I have had enough of that charlatan. Fuck that guy.
andy_smalls
(4 posts)it's not getting in the way of anything, it's falling in the ocean. the debris is not in orbit.
2naSalit
(94,178 posts)I see that it was broken up in orbit? That means it's up there and will be until it falls.
Doesn't change my pov either way.
muriel_volestrangler
(102,765 posts)It was going to go high and fast (but not fast enough for orbit), release some "dummy satellites" to test the release procedure, and then attempt to come down, controlled, in the Indian Ocean.
2naSalit
(94,178 posts)Thanks, I still see it as pollution regardless of where the debris ends up.
All this money wasted on these pseudo-space programs that don't get us any progress on the ground, literally. I can get behind more space exploration after we clean up our act on the surface.