By Michael Sheetz
CNBC*The latest prototype of SpaceX’s next-generation Starship rocket launched successfully on Tuesday but exploded on impact during an attempted landing.
*Starship prototype Serial Number 9, or SN9, aimed to fly as high as 10 kilometers, or about 32,800 feet altitude.
*While the rocket flew successfully, it hit the ground explosively on its return, just as the SN8 flight did in December.
*“We had, again, another great flight up ... we’ve just got to work on that landing a little bit,” SpaceX principal integration engineer John Insprucker said.
The latest prototype of SpaceX’s next-generation Starship rocket launched successfully on Tuesday but exploded on impact during an attempted landing after a development test flight.
Starship prototype Serial Number 9, or SN9, aimed to fly as high as 10 kilometers, or about 32,800 feet altitude. The flight was similar to the one SPaceX conducted in December. when it launched prototype SN8 on the highest and longest flight to date.
*Starship prototype Serial Number 9, or SN9, aimed to fly as high as 10 kilometers, or about 32,800 feet altitude.
*While the rocket flew successfully, it hit the ground explosively on its return, just as the SN8 flight did in December.
*“We had, again, another great flight up ... we’ve just got to work on that landing a little bit,” SpaceX principal integration engineer John Insprucker said.
The latest prototype of SpaceX’s next-generation Starship rocket launched successfully on Tuesday but exploded on impact during an attempted landing after a development test flight.
Starship prototype Serial Number 9, or SN9, aimed to fly as high as 10 kilometers, or about 32,800 feet altitude. The flight was similar to the one SPaceX conducted in December. when it launched prototype SN8 on the highest and longest flight to date.
The rocket prototypes are built of stainless steel, representing the early versions of the rocket that CEO Elon Musk unveiled last year. The company is developing Starship with the goal of launching cargo and as many as a 100 people at a time on missions to the moon and Mars.
While the rocket flew successfully, it hit the ground explosively on its return, just as the SN8 flight did in December.
“We had, again, another great flight up ... we’ve just got to work on that landing a little bit,” SpaceX principal integration engineer John Insprucker said on the company’s webcast of the flight.
While the rocket flew successfully, it hit the ground explosively on its return, just as the SN8 flight did in December.
“We had, again, another great flight up ... we’ve just got to work on that landing a little bit,” SpaceX principal integration engineer John Insprucker said on the company’s webcast of the flight.
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15 comments:
They should have place it over at SPI. It would have been PERFECT!
More explosions (failures)than good launches. What to expect?
Move it to SPI the gran viewing castle is there...
"What to expect?" Anonymous 8:47
Interesting question. Think about the Starship as an infant learning to walk. Does a child starts walking at an early age without first falling. No, a child needs to experience the process of learning how to walk which will include falling several times. The same thing is happening with the Starship. Space X can launch a rocket up into the atmosphere but the process of landing the Starship is another process which they have yet to do successfully. They will continue with the process until they conquer the art of landing the Starship safely without crushing the spaceship. That is what is expected regardless of what complaints bloggers write in their blog.
@1:02
"learning to walk"?
Have you been in a dark hole for the past 80 years, since the advent of rocketry? This is not rocket science anymore. NASA might be a good source for how to do it, as it has the engineers.
SpaceX (Musk) is not quite the visionary the purports to be. I mean, he does have computers for his simulated flights, does he not? Stop apologizing for these elementary failings.
SpaceX is up to something else altogether.......
They never cared about the RGV. We're a bunch of poors and they wanted to do rocket tests, and needed dumb poor people who'd think it's cool if some missile testers used their beach as a testing ground.
Fire! cool! Fire! Explosion! Wow! Badass!
FAA was right. FAA was the reasonable adult with a kid in the room giving them the middle finger.
SpaceX doesn't care if these missiles blow up near us, or on us.
No one will volunteer to go on a rocket launch when they can't land the rocket without blowing it up....
Musk tried to blame the FAA for holding him back
But the real problem is Musk was rushing through premature rocket launches that blow up and can't land.....
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Sorry but Musk isn't the right person to be in charge of this project.
". . he does have computers for his simulated flights, does he not?" 2:50 PM
You can play baseball, football, golf and so many things in a computer and be the best in this world of simulated competition. However, if you try to do in reality you will probably find out that you are just an average person in this world. But wait, if you practice and dedicate yourself to the real sport, you could be better than an average person and become a professional.
Yes, you are correct, they probably do have computers and they most likely do simulated flights on landing a returning spaceship to Earth. However, simulated flights are not the real thing. So, they have to try the real procedure of landing the spaceship and if they fail they will have to try over and over until they are successful in landing the spaceship. That is reality.
Again, you are correct, NASA probably does have the best engineers in the world and probably is the best source on how to land a returning spaceship safely on Earth. However, it has yet to happen other than landing the space shuttle like an airplane.
Interesting statement: "Space X is up to something else altogether". Care to elaborate on your comment.
San Benito moves forward with $450M ‘epicenter’
Just like el pendejo city of brownsville patch the pot holes bring industry open some stores in the downtown area and paint the city NOOOOO instead they will built an 'EPICENTER' for what, PACHANGAS BOLA DE PENDEJOS...
They need to launch those rockets from the downtown area maybe la bruja del southmost can light the fuse...
He's just trying to scare people from going to the beach and than buy it real cheap go ahead and sell it bola de pendejos they ALL need to go...
SpaceX will always launch their manned flights from Florida. The Boca Chica site's value to SpaceX is as a vital tracking stations for the reentry of its flights back to Florida. What you are seeing at Boca Chica is just a song and dance to entertain the locals and give some credence to the politicians that sold out one of the last pristine, mainland beaches in the U.S.
As long as Boca Chica Beach stays open for families to enjoy, I can put up with an exploration/science/capitalistic/private company to borrow our beach and add to the economy.
To all the state, county and city officials who approved the Elon Musk SpaceX program I say thank you for the creation of new jobs. Yes, there have been several failures but citizens and doubters need to drive out there and see the hundreds of cars in the parking lots and on the side of the street. These are jobs that locals and valley residents didn't have since the project started several years ago. I drove out there on Highway 48 and noticed building activity, cleared land and some small businesses popping up. This indicates to me that there are new subdivisions, housing, trailer parks, etc. on the horizon for workers and visitors. I think its a win-win situation for everybody.
@8:24 The author of that fu*k up comment is Judge Cascos! The hell with the wild life ! It's a win-win situation pendejo!
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