SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft exploded on Thursday minutes after lifting off from Texas, dooming an attempt to deploy mock satellites in the second consecutive failure this year for Elon Musk’s Mars rocket program.
Several videos on social media showed fiery debris streaking through the dusk skies near south Florida and the Bahamas after Starship’s breakup in space, which occurred shortly after it began to spin uncontrollably with its engines cut off, a SpaceX livestream of the mission showed.
The failure comes just more than a month after the company’s seventh Starship flight also ended in an explosive failure. The back-to-back mishaps occurred in early mission phases that SpaceX has easily surpassed previously, indicating serious setbacks for a program Musk has sought to speed up this year.
I think it can be attributed to Musk because he’s the driving force behind pushing the “move fast and break things” mentality into rocket science. They haven’t figured out why the last one blew up and they go ahead and launch another one which looks like it blew up for the same reasons.
That might work with non-critical software, but when you’re talking about large rockets it’s bound to get people killed eventually. At the very least they could’ve built a launch site for testing where the rockets aren’t going over populated areas. But naw, build it in Texas and fire untested rockets over Caribbean countries, because there’s not enough white people in those countries for Musk to give a shit.