Starship Test Launch Thursday

[Longnose]

2 hours ago, John Hjorth said:

 

Despite @Longnoses long nose, I can't help to like him!  

 

WSJ News [June 19^th 2025] : Watch: SpaceX Starship Explodes After ‘Major Anomaly’

 

'Major anomaly'<-- It looks like blowing up while running at 50x margin!

 

 

 

 

-- This explosion is nuts. But It likely wont slow Elon down.  Im always amazed by the progress being driven by that crazy man. 

[John Hjorth]

1 hour ago, Longnose said:

 

-- This explosion is nuts. But It likely wont slow Elon down.  Im always amazed by the progress being driven by that crazy man. 

 

lol, PDL Comics is just great :

 

[Spekulatius]

7 hours ago, Longnose said:

This explosion is nuts. But It likely wont slow Elon down.  Im always amazed by the progress being driven by that crazy man. 

If the Starships keep exploding ( it is the 4 explosion in a row) it will slow down SpaceX for sure. The complexity with many rockets makes it more prone to failure. I don’t think a human will be on board this one until 2027 at earliest.

Edited June 20, 2025 by Spekulatius

[DooDiligence]

3 hours ago, Spekulatius said:

If the Starships keep exploding ( it is the 4 explosion in a row) it will slow down SpaceX for sure. The complexity with many rockets makes it more prone to failure. I don’t think a human will be on board this one until 2027 at earliest.

 

You underestimate Leon's ability to influence people to make bad decisions.

[Spekulatius]

11 hours ago, DooDiligence said:

 

You underestimate Leon's ability to influence people to make bad decisions.

I don’t think it’s just up to  him. SpaceX will make this work but the pipedream of a Mars mission during Trump presidency is now very unlikely to happen.

[John Hjorth]

34 minutes ago, Spekulatius said:

I don’t think it’s just up to  him. SpaceX will make this work but the pipedream of a Mars mission during Trump presidency is now very unlikely to happen.

 

Yeah, that public melt-down between those two men was not good.

[DooDiligence]

25 minutes ago, John Hjorth said:

 

Yeah, that public melt-down between those two men was not good.

 

The wants of the few outweigh the needs of the many.

 

[Spekulatius]

45 minutes ago, John Hjorth said:

 

Yeah, that public melt-down between those two men was not good.

It has little to do with this meltdown but more to do with pure technical challenges. The last launch window to get to  Mars before the next election is Q4 2006 and it isn’t a particular good one. There is no way Starship is ready for this by that time and many other parts are missing to complete a Mars mission anyways.

[Dalal.Holdings]

I think the next step are a manned mission to/around the moon, but yeah, Starship needs to get its issues resolved before any humans are put in

[Spekulatius]

9 hours ago, Dalal.Holdings said:

I think the next step are a manned mission to/around the moon, but yeah, Starship needs to get its issues resolved before any humans are put in

Elon disses the moon though, says it’s not worth it, SpaceX did sign contract though for the Artemis mission. The timeline seems to be getting tight though.

https://www.flyingmag.com/spacex-stands-behind-its-ambitious-lunar-timeline/

[Loss Horizon]

SpaceX is currently in the business of exploding rockets. Every explosion advances the valuation.