Elon Musk's SpaceX Starship booster explodes at launch site during ground test

[Nan Yang]

Elon Musk's SpaceX Starship booster explodes at launch site during ground test​

11 Jul, 2022 06:52 PM

Elon Musk's SpaceX Starship booster appears to explode at Starbase launch site. Photo / NASA Spaceflight

Elon Musk's plans to send humans to orbit Mars have been dealt a heavy blow after an explosion rocked the site during testing.

Video captured part of the Tesla billionaire's SpaceX Starship appearing to explode at a launch facility in Texas.

The spacecraft engineering company is prepping the rocket for its first orbital launch, which Musk had hoped to be ready for this month.

Nasa Spaceflight was live-streaming when the explosion happened.

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Elon Musk's SpaceX Starship booster explodes at launch site during ground test

Part of the SpaceX Starship burst into flames during launch.

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[MH.Yang]

Don't worry, failure is the mother of success!

It doesn't even matter if it exploded 99 times. You should continue to work hard, gather 100 times, and make a beautiful three digit number.

 

[jamahir]

Part of the development process.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Fuel vapor ignition outside rocket

https://twitter.com/x/status/1546727913944502274

Don't worry, failure is the mother of success!

It doesn't even matter if it exploded 99 times. You should continue to work hard, gather 100 times, and make a beautiful three digit number.

Best to fail trying than to not try at all. That's why the US made it to the moon while everybody else never even tried because they considered it impossible with their known technology.

It took 2 bicycle makers (with a minimal education BTW) in the US to achieve flight after thousands of years of men in country after country after country failing and giving up. This could have easily been achieved by the Chinese if they had shown the same persistent attitude as the Wright Brothers instead of a "give up" attitude due to their constant fear of failure and losing face.

One of the greatest moments in mankind's history. They achieved what millions before them had dreamed...and what others around the world had confidently said wouldn't be achieved for at least another few hundred years in the future. Unreal.

 

[MH.Yang]

Best to fail trying than to not try at all. That's why the US made it to the moon while everybody else never even tried because they considered it impossible with their known technology.

It took 2 bicycle makers (with a minimal education BTW) in the US to achieve flight after thousands of years of men in country after country after country failing and giving up. This could have easily been achieved by the Chinese if they had shown the same persistent attitude as the Wright Brothers instead of a "give up" attitude due to their constant fear of failure and losing face.

One of the greatest moment in mankind's history. They achieved what millions before them had dreamed.

Sorry, I'm just kidding.

I respect people and countries who have gone from failure to success, and we are also a nation that has come out of a century of humiliation.

 

[Nan Yang]

Actually US should have build on the or improved on the Space Shuttle instead of totally abandoning it and build that huge starship that is unproven. The Space X starship seems to have little room for error.

The space shuttle on the other hand has been proven and is mature.
The space shuttle could be designed smaller and position on top of a booster rocket.

Making a little improvement continuously over time is better then jumping into entirely new and unproven design.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Actually US should have build on the or improved on the Space Shuttle instead of totally abandoning it and build that huge starship that is unproven. The Space X starship seems to have little room for error.

The space shuttle on the other hand has been proven and is mature.
The space shuttle could be designed smaller and position on top of a booster rocket.

Making a little improvement continuously over time is better then jumping into entirely new and unproven design.

The Space Shuttle's payload bay serves no purpose anymore as we have reusable rockets that can send up bigger payloads far cheaper.

We also already have smaller shuttles being built which will be mounted wings folded on a booster rocket.

DreamChaser spaceplane (no, that it isn't an X-37)

The Space X starship seems to have little room for error.

It will carry unprecedented payloads for a cheap price...and won't have people on it for probably the first few hundred flights.

All they have to do is figure out how to land it in one piece.

This is the only way to build huge structures in space in a cost effective manner.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1547094594466332672

 

[Oldman1]

Don't worry, failure is the mother of success!

It doesn't even matter if it exploded 99 times. You should continue to work hard, gather 100 times, and make a beautiful three digit number.

Actually US should have build on the or improved on the Space Shuttle instead of totally abandoning it and build that huge starship that is unproven. The Space X starship seems to have little room for error.

The space shuttle on the other hand has been proven and is mature.
The space shuttle could be designed smaller and position on top of a booster rocket.

Making a little improvement continuously over time is better then jumping into entirely new and unproven design.

If NASA was serious, could have looked like this.