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Very unfortunate, but strategically this changes nothing for US spaceflight. If anything, SpaceX will continue to increase its dominance.
by d_silin 4mo ago
Very unfortunate, but strategically this changes nothing for US spaceflight. If anything, SpaceX will continue to increase its dominance.
- ezfe 4mo agoBlue Origin is challenging SpaceX - they are not the incumbent. I'm not sure how you can say that SpaceX will increase dominance despite this.
- d_silin 4mo agoSpaceX will increase the lead from all potential competitors even further.
- bigyabai 4mo agoIt's a static fire test. There weren't any payloads inside, this isn't very bad PR.
- anonymousiam 4mo agoNot very bad, except that they lost the whole rocket, and damaged the launch complex. No big deal. What's a few hundred mil and a one year delay...
- Rover222 4mo agoPlease look at total mass launched to space by SpaceX vs the rest of the world combined. They are the most incumbent launcher in history. Unless you're talking about moon landers specifically. Anyway, competition is good and this is a bummer.
- ezfe 4mo agoWhat are you trying to accomplish with this comment? SpaceX is the incumbent that's what I said...
- nickvec 4mo agoOne can be the dominant player in a field and still increase dominance.
- ezfe 4mo agoThe comment I'm replying to is saying that SpaceX will increase dominance despite this explosion which makes no sense.
- testing22321 4mo agoBlue Origin are challenging SpaceX about as much as I’m challenging Michael Jordan. Sure we’re playing the same game, but the divide is enormous
- ezfe 4mo agoWhat are you trying to accomplish with this comment? Did I say that they were on the same level?
- 0xffff2 4mo agoUnless the comment was edited, the person you replied to never said anything about "despite"?
- ezfe 4mo agoThey didn't say despite, they said "If anything" which reads the same to me: > If anything, SpaceX will continue to increase its dominance.
- senectus1 4mo agoit'll probably be a favorable event for SpaceX's IPO.
- 7e 4mo agoSurely not as favorable for the IPO as SpaceX’s own recent explosion and multiple engine failures?
- kortilla 4mo agoBlowing up on the pad is incredibly worse from a design data collection perspective, a risk to life perspective, and a downstream impact to future launches perspective (nobody can use that site for a couple of months).
- HerbManic 4mo agoTo be fair the last Starship to blowup on launchpad/ground was less than a year ago. It is a set back but it appears nobody has avoided this issue yet. https://www.livescience.com/space/space-exploration/spacexs-starship-explodes-on-texas-launch-pad-in-catastrophic-failure-during-routine-test https://www.livescience.com/space/space-exploration/spacexs-...
- testing22321 4mo agoThat was on a test stand, NOT a launchpad. Vastly different destroying each of those.
- HerbManic 4mo agoI will give you that. Better to blow up in a test rather than ready for launch.
- senectus1 4mo agonot to mention 7 days before it was meant to deliver a payload to space... a proper commercial payload. not just a POC payload.