SpaceX’s seventh launch of its starship mega rocket ended with an “unscheduled disassembly” on Thursday evening.
In laymen’s terms, it blew up.
That sure helped the environment!
Quick! Buy another BEV to help save the planet.
Doesn’t have to be a BEV, anything with a battery will do!
My wife once experienced a sudden unexpected deceleration event resulting in rearrangement of auto parts…
It’s more likely that the Flight Termination System (FTS) was activated automatically due to loss of telemetry, as there was quite a gap between the progressive loss of engines (down to one when telemetry lost) and the “boom”.
RUDs Happen. Quick! Someone go raid the cup on Elon’s nightstand so we can build another one.
" . . . it blew up"
But it shore blowed up good.
The planet doesn’t need saving, it knows what it’s doing.
Like Edison, Elon just discovered another way NOT to build a spaceship.
It was at a very high altitude when it…dissasembled. Bits and pieces take a while taking from that altitude.
“Unscheduled disassembly” my ass! That was an unexpected failure ending in an explosion, not some genius plan. Unless, of course, the plan was to redefine failure as progress and call blowing up a rocket “thinking outside the launch pad.”
Oh dang, guys. This thing didn’t blow up.
We got it all wrong! There was no “unscheduled disassembly” either. It was just a completely safe and well executed mission that fortunately mis-happened “outside of the environment”.
No. No cardboard. No cardboard derivatives. Nothing ordered from TEMU. Not even a product from DJI. At NO POINT was there any risk or damage to mother nature or the environment.
Maybe the front fell off? (Click the link for amusement purposes, I promise - it only goes to Youtube!)
Very misleading headline. The booster performed nearly perfectly (one Raptor didn’t light during boost back burn but did during terminal burn), returned to launch site and was caught without problems. The ship got through maybe two thirds of planned burn before starting to lose engines. Disappointing, but several more ships are nearly complete at Boca Chica along with more boosters. The problems will be solved and they will fly again soon.
I’m having trouble with the first sentence in your second paragraph.
Do you seriously think Elon didn’t consult with his engineers who looked at the telemetry and on board video before making his statement about the likely cause of the problem?
Here’s another link of examples of completely safe and well executed missions. The only difference, is the missions depicted in this link, were designed without the expectation of RUD.
