Video credit: LabPadre
Meme credit: u/rustybeancake
For those keeping score on Firefly Alpha’s track record:
Flight 1: failure
Flight 2: partial failure
Flight 3: success
Flight 4: partial failure
Flight 5: success
Flight 6: failure
Flight 7: today’s ground explosion
This compares to Astra Rocket 3.0’s track record of 2 successes out of 9 launch attempts (including ground failures).
7 Comments
burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 313d
Such a Texas video
Junkyard, highway traffic, and textbook mushroom cloud
FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 313d
The junkyard is across the highway from the test site and is where this was obviously filmed. I would also question calling this "Flight 7" as this is a test facility. No flights originate there.
verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 312d
This man beat Calgon and freed Southern Sun, we should trust him.
oleorun@lemmy.fan · 5 pts · 313d
Certainly lives up to the fire part of the name
teddyt@feddit.org · 4 pts · 313d
Turns out this shooting stuff up without exploding is harder than expected! I thought it wouldn't be so hard, I mean it's not like it is rocket science!
burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 312d
You would not believe your eyes
If ten million fireflies
Lit up the world as I fell asleep
verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 312d
Oh no, I'm developing empathy for Firefly. It sort of stings.