SpaceX's Starship explodes in space, again raining debris over Caribbean

Rather wasteful, one might argue.

Perhaps DOGE could look into it.

How much do you want to bet that Musk sends a bill to the government to pay for it?

It's an 'iterative" process to be sure!

Oh, the FAA should investigate.

Oh, Musk fired the previous investigator. I guess there won't be an inestigation.

Sack the FAA....nothing to see here folks...move along please....

At least no one on board.

Elon Musk's business empire is built on $38 billion in government funding. Government infusions at key moments helped Tesla and SpaceX flourish, boosting Musk's wealth.

Like the USA care about other counties like the Caribbean. It only care about their Billion heirs. Give us a break from the false empathy.

It will be good when Tesla finally crashes (and they are now). It's become a garbage company... Elon did NOT found Tesla, he had nothing to do with their first successful models (proof...look at the garbage Cyber Truck). Since the original founders of Tesla left, Telsa has become a garbage heap.

RE: The Super Heavy first stage booster flew back to Earth as planned and was successfully grabbed in midair by a SpaceX crane.

Credit where credit is due. The Space X retrieval system is incredible.

RE:Starship broke up in space shortly after it began to spin uncontrollably

This would seem to be an easier operation than the retrieval, but I am no rocket scientist.

RE: the second straight failure this year for Elon Musk's Mars rocket program.

Government money for sure!!

Probably siphoned away from NASA.

Rather wasteful, one might argue.

Perhaps DOGE could look into it.

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Anyway, back to the drawing board

RE: The Super Heavy first stage booster flew back to Earth as planned and was successfully grabbed in midair by a SpaceX crane.

Credit where credit is due. The Space X retrieval system is incredible.

RE:Starship broke up in space shortly after it began to spin uncontrollably

This would seem to be an easier operation than the retrieval, but I am no rocket scientist.

RE: the second straight failure this year for Elon Musk's Mars rocket program.

Government money for sure!! 

Probably siphoned away from NASA

I agree

Anyway, back to the drawing board

SpaceX didn't invent any technology. Telsa is down and that is a good thing. They will continue to go down.

How much do you want to bet that Musk sends a bill to the government to pay for it?

Coincidentally or not, this popped up on my twitter a couple of days ago. It sounds like it is standard procedure for the government to pick up the tab for space junk. While I say "standard procedure", this is not something they tell you about, and many would disagree with it.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/spacex-dropped-space-junk-on-my-neighbors-farm-heres-what-happened-next/

How much do you want to bet that Musk sends a bill to the government to pay for it?

Meaning he’ll be sending the bill to himself effectively (though it’ll of course be paid with taxpayer money rather than his own).

A metaphor for Elon Musk's fortunes.

Good News Friday - about time ! "Hooray" !

wishing for an American company to crash

If they crash because someone wishes that, it means they have real problems. Many people hate Microsoft but they are not crashing. Poor excuse. Watch a Tesla go down and grab the popcorn.

bass4funkToday 12:46 pm JST

Government money for sure!! 

Probably siphoned away from NASA

I agree

Do you also hope that China beats us back to the moon?

Still better than the china-nese space station that pummeled down to Earth for which the china-nese didn't even have the decency to give advanced warning to countries in its path.

Go Musk!

Musk did not invent Rockets. Rockets have been landing backwards since the 90s. People can't live on Mars. Total recall is a Hollywood movie. The Tesla semi is a scam. What happened to the Hyperloop?

Poor Elon. It’s not easy being a Bond villain.

Tests. Part of the development process. Though total loss of the craft adds to cost it will be considered a failure only if it ultimately failed to produce a satisfactorily working product.

Musk criticised NASA for leaving the two astronauts on the ISS. Musk offered to bring them home.

Musk in X spat with Danish astronaut over 'abandoned' ISS crew.

Musk claims that former president Joe Biden intentionally abandoned two American astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

https://phys.org/news/2025-02-musk-spat-danish-astronaut-abandoned.html

Trying to "rush things" often ends in failure, as it has here.

Who ordered the rush? Elon Musk.

Who's pocket pays for the failure? Not Elon Musk.

Who takes all the credit when something goes right? Elon Musk.

Who does all the work at SpaceX? Employees, certainly "not Elon Musk"

Might be time to put that DOGE down, Woof. To me it will always be doggie.

It's failure which teach us most, keep up the Kaizen and finally you will be where you want to be. But one thing I'm sure of, jelouse is worse than cancer because cancer kills the body, jelouse destroys the soul.

It's these kind of failures that make me worried about the people scheduled to be launching (or not) into space on these private company's rockets. Too many, "It didn't go too well this time," comments.

Oops

SpaceX Starship test flight explodes over Florida, grounding flights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XIAjvm_olk

Ohhhhhhhh, and don't we just love to see the high performers fall! Some nice psychology at play here in the ole comments section. You guys rock!

Luckily, Team Musk will just recalibrate and get straight back on the horse, stronger and wiser. That's how this stuff works and what these guys do. Rocket science!

"It's these kind of failures that make me worried about the people scheduled to be launching (or not) into space on these private company's rockets. Too many, "It didn't go too well this time," comments."

I think you shouldn't be overly worried, many tests of which some will result in failures are necessary before allowing humans in those rockets.

With a boss like Elon Musk, the morale at spaceX must be free falling, just like their rockets

Ohhhhhhhh, and don't we just love to see the high performers fall!

Arguably less icky than openly bro-worshiping them with all the overtones that involves. And he's hardly a "high performer" if you look at the current performance of a) his rockets, b) Tesla stock, c) his family relationships, and d) his public image.

the morale at spaceX must be free falling, just like their rockets

And Tesla sales.....

With a boss like Elon Musk, the morale at spaceX must be free falling, just like their rockets

Some smart hackers broadcast an image of his "salute" onto Tesla HQ somewhere in Germany if I recall. If they could add Tom Petty's "Free Falling" chorus to that, we'd have something pretty close to perfection.

They're tests. It would really be worrisome if it's mission ships with people aboard that exploded like some nasa shuttles before.

Don't really know, have any of SpaceX's exploded with people before?

"A minor setback," is how Musk characterized it.

Is he channeling Monty Python now?

ianToday 04:07 pm JST

SpaceX wasn't first in the world doing its thing and give it a few flights..

TaiwanIsNotChina

Today 04:12 pm JST

ianToday 04:07 pm JST

> SpaceX wasn't first in the world doing its thing and give it a few flights..

Hahaha really?

When did you learn that

All great technological progress takes time and failure, surely fine folks at SpaceX learning lots from this test flight, Musk gets best and brightest to work for him as he's building a tech. culture pushing the human envelope.

Nobody dreams bigger - "First Pal" Elon for good reason!

ianToday 04:13 pm JST

SpaceX wasn't first in the world doing its thing and give it a few flights..

Hahaha really?

When did you learn that

History class:

It was the Germans and then the US/USSR.

Nobody dreams bigger - "First Pal" Elon for good reason!

Reminder that Starship still has zero (0) payloads successfully sent into orbit. Their first moon landing was initially planned for Q1 2024. They are still years away from that at this point. And 6 months ago Musk promised mars landings in the near future (!). As always, lots of boasting, not much substance (but a lot of investments and government money in his pockets)

Musk will achieve success, we know his rocket business already has over 90% of global payload tonnage to space currently, Starlink equally dominate. SpaceX is the most valuable private company in global history.

Musk is trying to make cost of travel to space exponentially cheaper via rapid reusability, and nobody said it would be easy, this is after all "rocket science".

As Musk likes to say...."I'm a MAKER not a Cockroach TAKER" ripping people off with zero sum business models

SpaceX, ultimate Moon or Mars shot, making humans a multi-planetary species. Musk a TREASURE for entire human race, some sadly hell bent on WWIII with Russia = making SpaceX's Misson of Multi-Planetary Life Critical!

Bottom line, nobody even close to SpaceX in space industry, only Chinese Govt. a serious future competitor, as US Govt. understands serious talent wants to work in private sector with Stock $Options - Free of Govt. Suits!

Elon Musk no longer has any use for public markets, making Globalists very angry indeed, but it frees up far more time for him to focus on making human multi-planetary!

Well factually, small pieces of Elon Musk the world's most intelligent human are finally hitting the dirt, sinking into the sea etc. Any of you up for a free excursion to mars?? Another one-way experience of course? (or Off course if Trump stands on the tee)