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No, an explosion and destruction of equipment is a failure. Why do you keep dancing around this truth? It is a failure everywhere else in the world! You should'
by nikolay 6y ago
No, an explosion and destruction of equipment is a failure. Why do you keep dancing around this truth? It is a failure everywhere else in the world! You should've listened to the commentary of foreign anchors! They don't look at it as a success!
- fastball 6y agoThey are currently building like 10 other Starship prototypes. Even if this model had worked perfectly, it's unlikely they ever would've flown it again. Remember, SpaceX's goal is to mass produce these. Much better to fail hard now and in many different ways, as the more problems you can find with your expendable prototypes the better (before your manufacturing process starts to ossify).
- mkl 6y agoThings are successfully tested to destruction every day. That is the truth. Some of the most successful tests involve explosions and loss of equipment; it's the only way to be sure where the limits are. News anchors? They're often pretty clueless about technical things, so their mistakes don't mean much.
- JshWright 6y agoI'm very confused by your take here... SpaceX made it clear beforehand that the primary objectives of this test were the ascent and descent, not the landing. The "belly flop" horizontal descent is entirely new, and something they have only modeled so far. The primary objectives of the test were completed without any issues. If that doesn't meet your definition of success, I don't know what to tell you...