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SpaceX reached several milestones in its Starship rocket system’s second integrated test flight before losing the booster and spacecraft over the Gulf of Mexico.

SpaceX’s Starship rocket system reached several milestones in its second test flight before the rocket booster and spacecraft exploded over the Gulf of Mexico.

  • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The launch achieved most of its objectives, but it was supposed to fly farther and splash down near Hawaii. It was a success in that the 32 engines fired together, and the ship achieved separation, and there will be plenty of data about what went wrong. Both the superheavy and the starship were lost.

    But some things did go wrong, so you can’t say it was an “absolute” success. Rocket science is slow and expensive progress. It’s only a failure if we abandon the project. But it is disingenuous to say that everything worked out as intended.