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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.

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[–] hydrashok@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 days ago

Hey guys, can we hear again how low Earth orbit is dumb and we should just go to Mars? Asking for a friend.

/s

[–] regrub@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

I wonder if the reason for it failing this time was sabotage by SpaceX engineers.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 33 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Sabotage, or the fact that the best rocket scientists probably don't want to work for a Nazi on ketamine?

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 18 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Hey last time that happened we ended up with the atomic bomb.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago

The bomb wasn't successfully developed by the ones working for the Nazi on ketamine...

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[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I assume when Musk decided he wanted it to move faster his disruption undermined the process, meaning he sabotaged it.

[–] regrub@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

From the anecdotes I've heard by ppl who worked for him, that would not be surprising.

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[–] Mortoc@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I feel so bad for SpaceX engineers. If you grew up dreaming of space, you learn the math and science, and end up with that piece of shit as the figurehead for all your work.

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[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Ugh, I don’t actually hate the hardware rich testing strategy SpaceX uses, but you’re supposed to learn from your failures before launching the next rocket.

This looked like almost exactly the same issue - fire in the skirt area that catastrophically destroyed the engines.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Pretty sure the other fire was on the inside due to an engine leak. This fire/leak was on the outside.

Both around the enginee, but different spots.

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[–] mapmyhike@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

This is what happens when you cut regulations and fire the people who oversee quality and safety over stupidity and greed.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 11 points 2 days ago

Musk "speeding up" the program. Lol.

[–] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 days ago

Sorry Elon, you're just going to have to live in the hell you're creating.

[–] kmartburrito@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago
[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

And we need at least like 7 consecutive launches like this to fuel a moon mission. No wonder he's talking about Mars again, more time to grift off taxpayer money and not be on the hook to actually deliver any time soon.

Worst fucking timeline.

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We spent millions on the stainless dildo flying machine. The ruzzians used a pencil.

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (7 children)

.....Its the year 2026, January.... What feelings like a decade of misadministration has come to fruition. China has "developed" the most advanced paper-like electronic sheet material with a brain interface. We use a pencil now. Graphite! Who knew!

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[–] NotLemming@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I hope a space X employee is making these fail on purpose and keeps doing it

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago

The hidden cost of 60-hour work weeks.

[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 days ago

I'm excited for their Musk x Boeing Air Force One collab

[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

i try very hard to compartmentalize space related stuff to keep it separate from current politics.

but this one does feel good. fuck elon

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