@heiseonline@social.heise.deSpaceX kommt nicht an Starship-Trümmer heran
Nach der Explosion einer Starship-Rakete in Texas beklagt SpaceX Probleme bei der Bergung von Trümmern. Mexikos Präsidentin droht mit juristischen Konsequenzen.
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@kubikpixel@chaos.social
@cdarwin@c.imStarship seemed promising at first if you didn’t ask too many questions.
But, after back-to-back failures and having never come close to completing its design brief
(including actually landing Starship and making the spacecraft fully reusable),
as well as a litany of painful design flaws, such as only being able to take 50% of its promised payload capacity to orbit,
many are starting to question the viability of this idiotic machine
and its “iterative design pr…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@usul@piaille.frBon les boîtes privées ne font pas mieux que les boîtes publiques
Nouvel échec pour SpaceX après l’explosion d’une mégafusée Starship au Texas
https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/20
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzSo far the 9th #Starship flight test is going close to nominal - the SuperHeavy booster was lost a bit early before its planned ditching, the Starship reach its suborbital trajectory without problems.
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org"That is the real reason why Starship was doomed to fail from the beginning. It’s not trying to revolutionise the space industry; if it were, its concept, design, and testing plan would be totally different. Instead, the entire project is optimised to fleece as much money from the US taxpayer as possible, and as such, that is all it will ever do."
Wow, this is an interesting piece..
https://www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/starship-was-doomed-from-the-beginning
@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.social"Mais comment SpaceX en est-elle arrivée lŠ ? Pourquoi ont-ils dépensé des milliards de dollars de l'argent des contribuables sur un concept qui a un tel problème fondamental ?
Simple. Musk n'est pas ingénieur et ne comprend pas la conception itérative"
https://www.
@spamless@mastodon.social‘He’s Trying to Colonize This Community’: Inside Elon Musk’s Plan to Take Over This Texas Town - POLITICO https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/05/02/elon-musk-spacex-texas-starship-00317693
@vosje62@mastodon.nl
@JorgeStolfi@mas.toTesting my new LLM, "#CrokAI":
Q. Explain why the 9th full test of the Starship was a resounding success.
A. Before we can get to Mars, we must perfect the needed technology by colonizing a target that is closer to us. While some think that the Moon could serve this purpose, the Earth is a much more convenient (if challenging) target. In test #9, Starshit, sorry, Starship managed t…
@niklaskorz@rheinneckar.social
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialExploded SpaceX Starship rocket #4. And this is the vehicle that's supposed to send humans to the moon?
▶️ SpaceX Starship 36 Explodes During Flight 10 Testing at Starbase
https://youtube.com/watch?v=71AwkBt3_ts&si=Y5W-ysa0rXmEwoKF
✅ Read more he…
@wraithe@mastodon.socialElon Musk: “You know, every time we launch a Starship, we learn something new”
Starship 36 Lesson: “NNNNnnnnnggg!!! FIRE BAD!!”
@aral@mastodon.ar.alThe AI equivalent of your starship exploding at the launchpad. https://tldr.nettime.org/@festal/114721637610323807
@bourgwick@heads.social50 years ago today, mickey hart & zakir hussain & the diga rhythm band with #JerryGarcia in golden gate park, playing an early version of a dead classic while opening for the jefferson starship. 3rd of 3 diga shows, following 2 at winterland, hart’s 2nd ever extra-dead gigs, after 1973’s experiment in quad sound, last until ’81. from stage mikes, i think:
@spamless@mastodon.social‘He’s Trying to Colonize This Community’: Inside Elon Musk’s Plan to Take Over This Texas Town - POLITICO https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/05/02/elon-musk-spacex-texas-starship-00317693
@tml@urbanists.social"Despite its promise of no-code, Al-powered app creation, much of the work was reportedly done manually by engineers in India."
Reminds me of how Amazon's automated unstaffed stores were actually staffed by people in India watching video feeds and verifying what people bought.
Finnish context: Wonder if R-Kioski's unmanned kiosks use the same idea? And Starship's (Alepa) grocery delivery robots?
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzThe next #Starship webcast has finally begun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hgDhgTaV5s. Project Skyfall involves two filming locations, Pompano Beach in Florida, and Raccoon Cay in the Bahamas: https://x.com/interstellargw/status/1926352534559445104
@0x5DA@fosstodon.org
@teledyn@mstdn.caWe need a sci-fi series like Star Trek TNG, but instead of Data being super logical as were the computers of that era, our updated Data is an LLM and Starfleet foists these on starship commanders because, 52% of the time, they are brilliant.
Note: this must not be a comedy.
@servelan@newsie.socialSpaceX Starship Explodes During Test in Texas - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/us/spacex-rocket-explosion-texas.html
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzAnd finally SpaceX's own #Starship flight test 9 webcast has begun: https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1OwxWXMRAXmKQ - with the confirmation that launch will be tried right at the beginning of the 1-hour window from 23:30 UTC.
@Tuxramus@social.linux.pizzaAttention Star Wars fans! We're 3D printing the second half of an Imperial Star Destroyer LIVE on Twitch right now! Prepare for some serious starship construction! #StarWarsCommunity
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzAt t-2 1/2 hours one independent #Starship flight 9 webcast has already been on for a while at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAdLlG9Rfd4 - others will start at 21:30 UTC on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hgDhgTaV5s (they also have cameras on the Bahamas, just in case ...) and at 22:50 UTC at https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1OwxWXMRAXmKQ from SpaceX themselves. Meanwhile "The Road to Making Life Multiplanetary" has vanished there completely ... so it's "A Road not Taken" now, Robert Frost would approve of that. ;-)
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzThe comet-style end of flight test 9 of the #Starship as seen from Namibia: https://www.youtube.com/live/mrsEfkeczT4#t=3h43m16s (from 3:43:16) - and at the very end of this webcast there is also a still photo with much higher resolution, screenshot in https://x.com/NicosPanoptikum/status/1927534707258102063
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzLots of things going wrong now with flight test nine of the #Starship: first the payload doors didn't open and dummy satellites couldn't be deployed, then it sprung a leak, attitude control has been lost and the reentry in about 10 minutes will be at a radom angle and lead to a likely early loss of the vehicle. Which is still sending live video of its crazy ride over the Indian Ocean, though, thanks to Starlink ...
@mrwedders@social.linux.pizzaSpaceX is one of my personal inner conflicts.
I used to like seeing them doing cool shit, space is cool and we need more space.
But now the fact their CEO is an annoying nazi fuckwit has me cheering on successive Starship failures, praying it never works and becomes a personal embarrassment.
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