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    F.A.A. Temporarily Halts Launches of Musk’s Starship After Explosion

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    4. Mr_Lumbergh on

      After how many failures like this they finally pump the brakes? This should’ve happened a long time ago, SpaceX needs to get its house in order and perhaps admit they need to go back to the drawing board on Starship.

    5. Bangaladore on

      Ironic, the same people who say “Musk isn’t the reason XYZ is successful” are quick to point out “Musk is the reason for XYZ failure”

    6. GodsSwampBalls on

      An investigation like this is standard procedure any time a rocket launch doesn’t go 100% to plan. Blue Origin also has an FAA investigation right now because they failed to land the New Glenn booster.

      These investigations happen all the time. This is a nothing story. It will be over soon and Starship will launch again in a month or two.

    8. otter111a on

      I remember when Tesla (and others) started sending self driving cars onto the streets thinking, are people ok with being unpaid/unwitting human subjects in their experiments?

      As I watch Space X achieve progress through repeated system level failures, I’m left thinking, how is space X allowed to keep doing this? You look at the launch that destroyed the pad. Debris was raining down over a large area and the nature preserve suffered a lot of damage.

      Then there’s this. The explosion happened over a populated area. The debris then traveled beyond the populated area. With different timing debris is raining down on a populated area. Debris sank into a very delicate Caribbean ecosystem.

      It just seems to me that in the name of big showy launches they’re not doing the basic test bed level assurance testing that could prevent these massive system failures.

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      |[CoG](/r/Space/comments/1i3w35l/stub/m7qsusj “Last usage”)|Center of Gravity (see CoM)|
      |CoM|Center of Mass|
      |[FAA](/r/Space/comments/1i3w35l/stub/m7qqeon “Last usage”)|Federal Aviation Administration|
      |[FTS](/r/Space/comments/1i3w35l/stub/m7qg44u “Last usage”)|Flight Termination System|
      |[HLS](/r/Space/comments/1i3w35l/stub/m7qlsu7 “Last usage”)|[Human Landing System](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_program#Human_Landing_System) (Artemis)|
      |[ITS](/r/Space/comments/1i3w35l/stub/m7qfigk “Last usage”)|Interplanetary Transport System (2016 oversized edition) (see MCT)|
      | |[Integrated Truss Structure](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_Truss_Structure)|
      |[LEO](/r/Space/comments/1i3w35l/stub/m7qqeon “Last usage”)|Low Earth Orbit (180-2000km)|
      | |Law Enforcement Officer (most often mentioned during transport operations)|
      |MCT|Mars Colonial Transporter (see ITS)|
      |[RUD](/r/Space/comments/1i3w35l/stub/m7qgsfw “Last usage”)|Rapid Unplanned Disassembly|
      | |Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly|
      | |Rapid Unintended Disassembly|

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      |[Starlink](/r/Space/comments/1i3w35l/stub/m7qlsu7 “Last usage”)|SpaceX’s world-wide satellite broadband constellation|

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