The rocket that’s supposed to go to Mars is Starship.
I’m no expert, but apparently the design is very controversial, with some saying it’s an extremely risky design.
It can almost certainly get to orbit in its current state
No it can’t, they’ve tried twice where it failed very shortly after takeoff. The last attempt was only a month ago, pretty much like some people expected pre launch, because that would be very hard to avoid the way it’s designed. Also Musk himself acknowledged it was high risk, with a good chance it wouldn’t make it. NASA would NEVER have launched with a high probability of failure, the way the Starship program has been going, it would be very unlikely to be allowed to continue.
Musk justified the launch with the value of the telemetry in case of failure. Problem is that they lost contact 8 minutes before it visibly exploded in the sky. So they got no valuable telemetry either!!!
I’m simply sick of people projecting their hatred of Musk on to all the engineers.
That’s not what I see, it seems like Musk has become increasingly irate, and he is calling the shots. The engineers are AFAIK almost never blamed.
Funny how you claim I know little, when you just claimed Starship is basically ready, when all it can do is a few minutes before it blows up, it can’t even leave the atmosphere yet.
One stupid comment more and I block you.
The rocket that’s supposed to go to Mars is Starship.
I’m no expert, but apparently the design is very controversial, with some saying it’s an extremely risky design.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship
Pennomi:
Please, no need for that:
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No it can’t, they’ve tried twice where it failed very shortly after takeoff. The last attempt was only a month ago, pretty much like some people expected pre launch, because that would be very hard to avoid the way it’s designed. Also Musk himself acknowledged it was high risk, with a good chance it wouldn’t make it. NASA would NEVER have launched with a high probability of failure, the way the Starship program has been going, it would be very unlikely to be allowed to continue. Musk justified the launch with the value of the telemetry in case of failure. Problem is that they lost contact 8 minutes before it visibly exploded in the sky. So they got no valuable telemetry either!!!
That’s not what I see, it seems like Musk has become increasingly irate, and he is calling the shots. The engineers are AFAIK almost never blamed.
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Funny how you claim I know little, when you just claimed Starship is basically ready, when all it can do is a few minutes before it blows up, it can’t even leave the atmosphere yet.
One stupid comment more and I block you.
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