The booster returned again, so no issue with that. Seems to be the bigger technical problem to solve, spaceships have broken up all the time on reentry.
It's an unmanned test flight of an experimental vehicle. It would certainly be more reassuring if they got it right first try rather than patching problems and hoping there isn't one more they didn't miss, but it's understandable that designing and building the most powerful aircraft in human history is fairly difficult.
This is what the start of Kessler syndrome looks like, only in orbit so it's invisible.
Imagine a cloud of debris like this orbiting for years or decades, smashing into other satellites making their own debris clouds.
The progress SpaceX has made is great, but the downside is Elon is reckless and so this is what we're headed for. Hopefully when it happens (not if) it'll only be in low orbit where it'll resolve itself in a half dozen years or so and then everybody will work together to prevent it happening again.
You're drawing false conclusions from an outsider's uninformed position - the answer is actually "Yes." Two of the purposes of the ion drive on Starlink satellites are to perform evasive maneuvers and to deorbit the satellite when it is retired.
The starship failed in orbit and broke down in re entry but the booster RETURNED and was caught back in the lander arms/ chopsticks.
I notice A LOT of news outlets miss that off the headlines, but yeah something went wrong in orbit.
The H-1B's
Man that's gorgeous.
The booster returned again, so no issue with that. Seems to be the bigger technical problem to solve, spaceships have broken up all the time on reentry.
As the booster returned I feel that I need to say "we're still flying half a ship".
And the Rockets red flare!🎶
First flight of a brand new version of starship, and we are surprised it had problems?
The first two or three of the older version blew up, too.
If i was a loony dictator I would intentionally crash 100 of those for new years eve.
I was told the shot of the debris in the sky above the tropical isle was in Turks & Caicos.
It's an unmanned test flight of an experimental vehicle. It would certainly be more reassuring if they got it right first try rather than patching problems and hoping there isn't one more they didn't miss, but it's understandable that designing and building the most powerful aircraft in human history is fairly difficult.
This is what the start of Kessler syndrome looks like, only in orbit so it's invisible.
Imagine a cloud of debris like this orbiting for years or decades, smashing into other satellites making their own debris clouds.
The progress SpaceX has made is great, but the downside is Elon is reckless and so this is what we're headed for. Hopefully when it happens (not if) it'll only be in low orbit where it'll resolve itself in a half dozen years or so and then everybody will work together to prevent it happening again.
Not at the orbital altitudes they're testing at, any debris even in orbit would come down rapidly due to the traces of the atmosphere creating drag.
In this case the spacecraft was still well below orbital altitude.
Hence
I was asking a Space X fanboy the other day whether Elon & co were doing any brainstorming re: the accumulation of space junk and its consequences.
I got a very roundabout "No"
You're drawing false conclusions from an outsider's uninformed position - the answer is actually "Yes." Two of the purposes of the ion drive on Starlink satellites are to perform evasive maneuvers and to deorbit the satellite when it is retired.
I demand better quality content than this.
Then post some?