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> Starship now is arguably as successful as NASA's SLS rocket Remember when the Artemis 1 first stage lost structural integrity just after staging and blew up
by cratermoon 3y ago
> Starship now is arguably as successful as NASA's SLS rocket
Remember when the Artemis 1 first stage lost structural integrity just after staging and blew up, then the upper stage FTS activated before reaching orbit? Good times.
Oh wait, no, that didn't happen. The booster operated as expected, the Orion spacecraft spent six days in a distant retrograde orbit (DRO) around the Moon and returned to earth after about three weeks. The capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on December 11 and was recovered and returned to the Port of San Diego.
- atcalan 3y agoTwo different machines attempting to solve two different problems. Yes Artemis and Orion overlap part of starship goals, but they neither have rapid turn around and reusability, nor adaptability as requirements. They are, put human on moon machines, not tanker, pickup truck, delivery vehicle, Martian launch vehicle, etc.
- cratermoon 3y agopurpose has nothing do with whether or not a rocket can fly without a RUD. As for adaptability, rapid turn around and reusability, apparently the engineers working on Starship aren't the same ones that built Falcon 9, or else they forget everything they learned from that booster.