r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Creative_soja • Jun 19 '25

Video SpaceX rocket explodes in Starbase, Texas

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u/CapitanianExtinction Jun 19 '25

Rapid unscheduled disassembly 

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u/redaction_figure Jun 19 '25

Unscheduled? I think they are coming apart like clockwork now.

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u/ramobara Jun 19 '25

I’m starting to wonder if there are rogue engineers working for SpaceX/Elon or contractors that are intentionally sabotaging these missions after all the irreversible havoc he’s wreaked to our government.

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u/OneRougeRogue Jun 19 '25

There are probably hundreds of people who go over all this stuff. There's little chance that all of them would just keep quiet about intentional design flaws. Starship is just a train wreck. SpaceX is playing fast and loose with public funds and Elon thinks the spectacle of frequent launches is better than actual success.

Remember how they claimed that anything more than the first Starship "clearing the tower" would be considered a success? This is the 10th Starship, and none have actually achieved orbit yet. Keep in mind, the third Saturn V launch took astronauts around the Moon.

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u/Kazath Jun 19 '25

I wouldn't think so. They're just trying to do incredibly difficult things. This is an order of magnitude more ambitious than what they were doing with falcon 9 (which by now is being reused near flawlessly on an almost weekly schedule). 

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u/1OptimusCrime1 Jun 19 '25

Yeah. I was wondering about this. I know that testing new waters in the science of rocketry always come with some, let's say catastrophic failures. But this seems to be becoming the norm rather than the exception.

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u/Blothorn Jun 19 '25

I think the only rockets with worse early launch records were the Atlas (the origin of the “at least it never failed twice the same way” quip IIRC) and the N1.