SpaceX rocket explodes at Starbase during static fire testing
SpaceX rocket explodes at Starbase during static fire testing
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Yeah it did. Wowsers!
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The headline in the news banner just had impeccable comedic timing: "First next-gen superheavy possibly under construction" a few seconds after the rocket exploded
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That's a glorious boom
But that's why they do testing, it's cheaper to boom on testbed than on a launch pad or in the air
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But the idea behind doing things with the risk of them going boom is to learn things. I'm not sure they're learning what they need if they're going from testing Starship in launches to going back to static firing. If the idea is to rework the engines for Starship, I have to wonder if that's a fundamental enough step to put the entire project back to pretty much square one.
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Holy fuck. When was this? The last time something like this happened at Starbase was before the integrated flight tests started. With this, plus the recent suborbital Starship failures, it's really not looking great for the program.
There’s a timestamp in the photo. Yesterday at 23:00 CDT.