I'm in no way supportive of privatizing spaceflight, but this ignores the reality of the many, many catastrophic explosions that have occurred among publicly funded rocketry programs. Turns out strapping a capsule to a giant bomb and trying to control it while it explodes is pretty dangerous
But all the agencies responsible for SLS (NASA, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin) have lengthy histories of engineering and construction of rocket systems and have had their fair share of catastrophies. Blue Origin does not have that history.
I can't believe I'm defending Blue Origin, I think I just threw up in my mouth
the thing is that the space industry was already in the hand of the NASA for like 5 decades and they did not manage to reduce the launch cost as much as spacex did.
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SenatorCollins@aussie.zone · 24 pts · 83d
Yeah, that’s not very typical. I’d like to make that point.
joshcodes@programming.dev · 15 pts · 83d
The footage is mostly clear until the end where it's much harder to see, but I think it's safe to say the front fell off.
Thassodar@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 83d
What changes do you suppose they'll make in the next version?
djdarren@piefed.social · 3 pts · 83d
How do you propose they'll tow this out of the environment?
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca · 21 pts · 83d
Rapid Unexpected Disassembly?
gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org · 3 pts · 83d
rude
hexdream@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 83d
Rapid Unexpected Disassmbly: Expensive.. so Rude is correct...
hperrin@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 83d
We should privatize the space industry even more!!! What could possibly continue to go wrong?
protist@retrofed.com · 11 pts · 83d
I'm in no way supportive of privatizing spaceflight, but this ignores the reality of the many, many catastrophic explosions that have occurred among publicly funded rocketry programs. Turns out strapping a capsule to a giant bomb and trying to control it while it explodes is pretty dangerous
hperrin@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 83d
SLS didn’t have a failure nearly this bad.
protist@retrofed.com · 0 pts · 82d
But all the agencies responsible for SLS (NASA, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin) have lengthy histories of engineering and construction of rocket systems and have had their fair share of catastrophies. Blue Origin does not have that history.
I can't believe I'm defending Blue Origin, I think I just threw up in my mouth
gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org · 1 pts · 83d
the thing is that the space industry was already in the hand of the NASA for like 5 decades and they did not manage to reduce the launch cost as much as spacex did.
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 83d
Spacex may be so cheap because they aren't profitable.
lettruthout@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 83d
Praise the camera operator
Gork@sopuli.xyz · 11 pts · 83d
I regret to inform you that the cylinder has been harmed.
cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 83d
Didn't even make it off the ground, pathetic.
Thorry@feddit.org · 5 pts · 83d
Well it was a static fire test, so it wasn't going to get off the ground no matter what.
CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 83d
Some of it made it off the ground…
cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 83d
Fair point. There also was lots of fire, so …
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 83d
Some parts of it did.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 83d
I wonder how the launch pads handle these. I’d be impressed if there’s anything usable left after that past maybe the concrete pad.
CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 83d
The main cost will be repairing the launch pad. It will take longer than building another rocket.
lacethespace@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 83d
Any casualties? Edit: "No one was injured during the failure"
NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 83d
That thing didn't even try...
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus · 4 pts · 83d
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 83d
Lame, the video cut off before we could hear the explosion :( Or was that wind like sound around 0:12 it and the mic is just garbage?