Another SpaceX Starship prototype broke up over the Indian Ocean on Tuesday, capping the latest bumpy test flight for the rocket central to billionaire Elon Musk’s dream of colonising Mars.
The biggest and most powerful launch vehicle ever built lifted off at 6.36pm local time from the company’s facility near a southern Texas village that earlier this month voted to become a city also named Starbase.
The first signs of trouble emerged when the first-stage Super Heavy booster blew up instead of executing its planned splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico.
A live feed then showed the upper-stage spaceship failing to open its doors to deploy a payload of Starlink satellite “simulators”.
LoL. It’s giving cybertruck owner energy.
Your lack of understanding how the design flaws for Starship make a lunar mission more difficult than it needs to be (if even possible), let alone how those problems will multiply for a Mars mission, shows it is you who doesn’t understand the problem.
Yes, missions crafted to fit the vision of an incompetent self-aggrandizing ketamine addict are fair game for significant doubt.