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re: SpaceX Starship Flight Test 9 | Booster explodes over Gulf, Starship tumbles after SECO

Posted on 5/27/25 at 9:43 pm to
Posted by rt3
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Posted on 5/27/25 at 9:43 pm to
Posted by rt3
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Posted on 5/27/25 at 9:44 pm to
Posted by Galactic Inquisitor
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Posted on 5/28/25 at 5:07 am to
At this point, NASA has a better success rate.
Posted by kywildcatfanone
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Posted on 5/28/25 at 5:11 am to
Stick to DOGE elon
Posted by jamiegla1
Member since Aug 2016
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Posted on 5/28/25 at 5:31 am to
He is not afraid to fail which is something I admire. I see a lot of paralysis in the chemical industry. People seem to expect perfect success or nothing at all. That’s a loser mentality in my opinion
Posted by el Gaucho
He/They
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Posted on 5/28/25 at 6:22 am to
He builds his liberal cars that run off electricity to try to put us oilfield guys out of business but what does he use in his spaceship pet project? Good ol American gasoline

He should have to make the rockets electric
Posted by jamiegla1
Member since Aug 2016
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Posted on 5/28/25 at 6:25 am to
That idiot won’t even buy Standard Lithium. He could literally travel to Mars with one super sack of dilithium crystals
Posted by TT9
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Posted on 5/28/25 at 6:28 am to
Shocker
Posted by highcotton2
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Posted on 5/28/25 at 6:40 am to
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Starship experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly.


Posted by wallowinit
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Posted on 5/28/25 at 8:29 am to
Good topic! It seems every time there’s anything having to do with Elon an amazing amount of hateful ignorance spews forth much as a knee-jerk reaction unabashedly proclaiming look how stupid I am! And they don’t care that they appear to be absolute morons.

Interesting behavior.
Posted by DarthRebel
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Posted on 5/28/25 at 9:22 am to
I am waiting for good video of that Booster slamming the Gulf of America.
Posted by KosmoCramer
Member since Dec 2007
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Posted on 5/28/25 at 9:26 am to
quote:

He builds his liberal cars that run off electricity to try to put us oilfield guys out of business but what does he use in his spaceship pet project? Good ol American gasoline



Starship uses liquid methane and liquid oxygen.
Posted by Btrtigerfan
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Member since Dec 2007
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Posted on 5/28/25 at 9:56 am to
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that Booster slamming the Gulf of America.


Didn’t happen. It rained down in little pieces.
Posted by DarthRebel
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Posted on 5/28/25 at 10:30 am to
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Didn’t happen. It rained down in little pieces.


It was pretty close to water before RUD. Hopefully with all the 4K cameras out there, someone got it

Posted by ATrillionaire
Houston
Member since Sep 2008
3293 posts
Posted on 5/28/25 at 10:36 am to
quote:

At this point, NASA has a better success rate.


NASA is funding Starship, so I'd say their success is tied at the hip.

Posted by wesfau
Member since Mar 2023
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Posted on 5/28/25 at 10:37 am to
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RUD


People actually, unironically use this dumbshit term?
Posted by tigerbaiter
Member since Dec 2006
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Posted on 5/28/25 at 10:42 am to
My daughter did the same thing when she turned 15
Posted by jcaz
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Posted on 5/28/25 at 11:03 am to
I just don’t see Artemis III happening before 2030. I honestly don’t see Starship being certified for human flight until 2035 at least.

It’s a far more complex system than the capsule system we rely on today for safety and redundancy.
Posted by DarthRebel
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Posted on 5/28/25 at 11:07 am to
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People actually, unironically use this dumbshit term?


Calm down killer, it is a funny term. People like you are why we cannot have nice things.
Posted by DarthRebel
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Member since Feb 2013
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Posted on 5/28/25 at 11:16 am to
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I just don’t see Artemis III happening before 2030. I honestly don’t see Starship being certified for human flight until 2035 at least.


They may look at getting Falcon Heavy up to speed for it. Right now the limitations, besides not being actually designed for this , larger fairing/payload capacity and integration with orion capsule or improved dragon capsule.

Upgrading payload/fairing is actually not that expensive or complex, the capsule is the issue. Orion is not designed to sit at top Falcon, so there would be some integration work. On the other side, Dragon is not designed for lunar duty. The general conclusion though it would be cheaper to modify Falcon for the task, than launch another SLS. Politics are holding us back, which is why SLS is even a thing. It should have been scrapped billions of $$$ ago.
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