I mean, sure, you're not wrong. It's just that you see the glass half full while I see it half empty haha. You see the gain, I see the loss.
It just didn't have to end this way. And it still kills the dream of seeing humans on Mars within the next ten years. Now, I'm thinking I won't see such a thing in my lifetime. No one is going to try to do it in the foreseeable future, except maybe the Chinese in a few decades if they really set it as their next goal.
This is very sad… the Nazi CEO doesn't actually care about space exploration. The Mars missions will probably not happen, and at this rate, he might even manage to kill his cash cow SpaceX.
Imagine that, thousands and thousands of employees gave it their best only for the dream to go up in smoke like that. Instead, they'll work for dumb space groklinks, so that Musk can fill his deep pockets while spreading fascism on Twitter and funding his bigoted LLM.
I'm in Japan, so I've looked at the logistic to go to Tanegashima Space Center. From Tokyo, it's like a big plane to Kagoshima, then a small plane to the island, and then a bus (if you're lucky) or an expensive taxi I guess. Of course, you could also take a ferry with a car from Kagoshima.
The problem isn't transportation, it's the fact that the best (and arguably only "worth the effort") viewing spot is a park whose access is restricted to only a few hundred people during launch… and as usual for limited things in Japan, it's a lottery system. :(
IMO this sounds either just like another powerpoint, or a political maneuver by Maia Space to get more entangled with ArianeGroup in order to get money.
I mean, Maia Space is nowhere close to launching their vehicle, and they want to make a Frankenstein version of their booster for Ariane 6? That just sounds like a nightmare.
Disappointing results to say the least. From an external point of view, it looks like SpaceX hasn't learned the lessons from the previous flight (even though we can't be sure it's the same kind of issue). Something seems really wrong with Starship V2.
Now, I'm thinking there is a decent chance they will keep that bad trajectory (pun intended) and try to launch the next starship soonish instead of doing a very careful review.
I would be really sad a few year ago, but given the nazi CEO, my excitement has plummeted. But I already ranted about that on r/spacex (even though my message got removed by the moderators).
Yeah, now that we know Starlink is led by a nazi, it changes from "a good idea to fund the Starship program" to "a means of controlling people, killing the net neutrality, and giving even more spying capabilities to the US military".
The nail in the coffin for me was when I learned that a senior SpaceX employee (who joined in 2003) was actively taking part in the DOGE thing.
Looks like SpaceX might be rotten at its core too, and this is very very sad to learn.
Really looking forward to tomorrow! I'll set my expectations low and think that they won't attempt a catch, so that I can be pleasantly surprised if it happens. Also, I hope the work on the ship's TPS will be enough to avoid any burn-through this time!
No sure that's already pretty great. It's just that given their objectives and their fly-break-fix methodology, they really need to crank up those numbers!
I will set my expectations pretty low as usual haha, so that I'm at worst satisfied with the outcome, and at best, pleasantly surprised.
So, I'm thinking the ship is not going to make it to splashdown. If Flight 4 is a repeat of Flight 3 minus the tumbling and with the ship going a bit farther into the reentry, then it's already progress.
For the booster, from the SpaceX article they published some time ago, it seems that the issue requires a redesign, and that the fix applied on Booster 11 is only partial. I wouldn't be surprised if it still RUDs during the landing burn, but who knows?
What I'm more interested about is the flight rate, which is not so great at the moment.
I mean, sure, you're not wrong. It's just that you see the glass half full while I see it half empty haha. You see the gain, I see the loss.
It just didn't have to end this way. And it still kills the dream of seeing humans on Mars within the next ten years. Now, I'm thinking I won't see such a thing in my lifetime. No one is going to try to do it in the foreseeable future, except maybe the Chinese in a few decades if they really set it as their next goal.
This is very sad… the Nazi CEO doesn't actually care about space exploration. The Mars missions will probably not happen, and at this rate, he might even manage to kill his cash cow SpaceX.
Imagine that, thousands and thousands of employees gave it their best only for the dream to go up in smoke like that. Instead, they'll work for dumb space groklinks, so that Musk can fill his deep pockets while spreading fascism on Twitter and funding his bigoted LLM.
What a sad reality we live in.
That would be a better outcome, but we all know he's not going to do such a thing.
…Maybe I should get diagnosed.
I wouldn't know, haven't looked at the exclusion zone, but it's an idea.
I'm in Japan, so I've looked at the logistic to go to Tanegashima Space Center. From Tokyo, it's like a big plane to Kagoshima, then a small plane to the island, and then a bus (if you're lucky) or an expensive taxi I guess. Of course, you could also take a ferry with a car from Kagoshima.
The problem isn't transportation, it's the fact that the best (and arguably only "worth the effort") viewing spot is a park whose access is restricted to only a few hundred people during launch… and as usual for limited things in Japan, it's a lottery system. :(
True, but I hope they're patient!
IMO this sounds either just like another powerpoint, or a political maneuver by Maia Space to get more entangled with ArianeGroup in order to get money.
I mean, Maia Space is nowhere close to launching their vehicle, and they want to make a Frankenstein version of their booster for Ariane 6? That just sounds like a nightmare.
I hope I'm wrong…
I'm late, but happy new year!
Sad to see it fail… not the みちびき we wanted.
Ça m'irait si le marché des smartphones n'était pas aussi fermé (à part Fairphone peut-être… et niveau software c'est la cata)
Congrats to the teams
The King is back!
I don't have the mental bandwidth to become a mod, so thank you for your efforts!
Disappointing results to say the least. From an external point of view, it looks like SpaceX hasn't learned the lessons from the previous flight (even though we can't be sure it's the same kind of issue). Something seems really wrong with Starship V2.
Now, I'm thinking there is a decent chance they will keep that bad trajectory (pun intended) and try to launch the next starship soonish instead of doing a very careful review.
I would be really sad a few year ago, but given the nazi CEO, my excitement has plummeted. But I already ranted about that on r/spacex (even though my message got removed by the moderators).
Yeah, now that we know Starlink is led by a nazi, it changes from "a good idea to fund the Starship program" to "a means of controlling people, killing the net neutrality, and giving even more spying capabilities to the US military". The nail in the coffin for me was when I learned that a senior SpaceX employee (who joined in 2003) was actively taking part in the DOGE thing. Looks like SpaceX might be rotten at its core too, and this is very very sad to learn.
Really looking forward to tomorrow! I'll set my expectations low and think that they won't attempt a catch, so that I can be pleasantly surprised if it happens. Also, I hope the work on the ship's TPS will be enough to avoid any burn-through this time!
No sure that's already pretty great. It's just that given their objectives and their fly-break-fix methodology, they really need to crank up those numbers!
(And also, I'm a bit impatient haha.)
Well fuck, I'm speechless. Amazing test flight!
I will set my expectations pretty low as usual haha, so that I'm at worst satisfied with the outcome, and at best, pleasantly surprised.
So, I'm thinking the ship is not going to make it to splashdown. If Flight 4 is a repeat of Flight 3 minus the tumbling and with the ship going a bit farther into the reentry, then it's already progress. For the booster, from the SpaceX article they published some time ago, it seems that the issue requires a redesign, and that the fix applied on Booster 11 is only partial. I wouldn't be surprised if it still RUDs during the landing burn, but who knows?
What I'm more interested about is the flight rate, which is not so great at the moment.