“Congrats to @SpaceX on Starship’s seventh test flight and the second successful booster catch.
Spaceflight is not easy. It’s anything but routine. That’s why these tests are so important—each one bringing us closer on our path to the Moon and onward to Mars through #Artemis.”
https://x.com/senbillnelson/status/1880057863135248587?s=46&t=-KT3EurphB0QwuDA5RJB8g
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I really wish these launches weren’t framed up as simple pass/fail. As long as no human life was lost, every new launch is testing new things, collecting more data and advancing progress.
It’s like saying you went for a run and got a muscle ache. That doesn’t mean the exercise was a failure.
Maybe not the best analogy, but you know what I mean?
Did it have a payload? If not, it’s a test. If it did, it’s a failure to launch.
Rocket that is meant to carry future people explodes dramatically on ascent…successful test boys
They didn’t meet a single objective regarding the ship and it fared much worse than flight 3-6. The debris came down outside the exclusion zone which is incredibly dangerous.
They will find and fix the issue.
The booster did what it was supposed to do as it always does but that’s secondary now to getting a working and fully reusable ship.
This flight was an overall failure.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters|
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|[BO](/r/Space/comments/1i34u5t/stub/m7kkvuo “Last usage”)|Blue Origin (*Bezos Rocketry*)|
|[FAA](/r/Space/comments/1i34u5t/stub/m7lbp1o “Last usage”)|Federal Aviation Administration|
|[HLS](/r/Space/comments/1i34u5t/stub/m7l68c9 “Last usage”)|[Human Landing System](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_program#Human_Landing_System) (Artemis)|
|[JWST](/r/Space/comments/1i34u5t/stub/m7k8n6b “Last usage”)|James Webb infra-red Space Telescope|
|[LEO](/r/Space/comments/1i34u5t/stub/m7l68c9 “Last usage”)|Low Earth Orbit (180-2000km)|
| |Law Enforcement Officer (most often mentioned during transport operations)|
|[RUD](/r/Space/comments/1i34u5t/stub/m7kazd0 “Last usage”)|Rapid Unplanned Disassembly|
| |Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly|
| |Rapid Unintended Disassembly|
|[SLS](/r/Space/comments/1i34u5t/stub/m7kfxgh “Last usage”)|Space Launch System heavy-lift|
|[SN](/r/Space/comments/1i34u5t/stub/m7kewx0 “Last usage”)|(Raptor/Starship) Serial Number|
|Jargon|Definition|
|——-|———|—|
|Raptor|[Methane-fueled rocket engine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raptor_(rocket_engine_family)) under development by SpaceX|
|[Starlink](/r/Space/comments/1i34u5t/stub/m7k9g25 “Last usage”)|SpaceX’s world-wide satellite broadband constellation|
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How does this impact SpaceX’s ability to provide a lander for the Artemis 3 mission in mid 2027? Do they still have to be able to fly a bunch of flights in rapid succession to fill up a propellant depot and fly an uncrewed test flight in two and a half years?
Currently stuck in Mexico because of this, I’m usually
If he had allowed Henry Zebrowski to go to NASA this wouldn’t have happened
If only bill could tell us what he really thinks about the abject failure of this company
This should all be contextualised with a statement that came from Musk a long time ago, he said something like “NASA’s approach was safety first with extensive testing required before any kind of launch took place, which hindered their progress. Our approach is much more aggressive and therefore perceived “failures” are a necessity and are totally expected.” I’m paraphrasing but that was the general message.
They successfully caught the booster again. That is a huge success.
People on reddit are so dumb and hateful