SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft exploded on Thursday minutes after lifting off from Texas, dooming an attempt to deploy mock satellites in the second consecutive failure this year for Elon Musk’s Mars rocket program.
Several videos on social media showed fiery debris streaking through the dusk skies near south Florida and the Bahamas after Starship’s breakup in space, which occurred shortly after it began to spin uncontrollably with its engines cut off, a SpaceX livestream of the mission showed.
The failure comes just more than a month after the company’s seventh Starship flight also ended in an explosive failure. The back-to-back mishaps occurred in early mission phases that SpaceX has easily surpassed previously, indicating serious setbacks for a program Musk has sought to speed up this year.
Remember a few years back when Trump was bemoaning Elon’s rockets to nowhere?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2022/07/12/rocketships-to-nowhere-trump-mocks-elon-musks-companies-in-latest-round-of-attacks/
Pepperidge… Forbes remembers.
That article is a wild. Feels like we are in a story with terrible foreshadowing and retcons
I think we’re in the Matrix where the machines have found a superior alternate fuel source.
I mean SpaceX has had a much longer history of telling federal agencies (especially the EPA) to go fuck themselves, launching anyway, and having absolutely fuck all for repercussions.