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Yeah, that was too bad. But you have to work out the kinks.
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Second engine failed to ignite causing the boom. I wonder if SN10 was damaged by the debris.
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Re: SpaceX now set to launch its next Starship prototype Tuesday

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Successful test, except for the end bit!

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helicon wrote: Tue Feb 02, 2021 8:41 pm Yeah, that was too bad. But you have to work out the kinks.
No doubt about that. It's all very exciting for me, since compared to other space flight development, SpaceX seems to be advancing so quickly.

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Sorry, just had to :D

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A perspective article from Ars Technica this morning:
"Putting the latest Starship crash into perspective—it’s “stupidly difficult”"

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/02 ... ing-to-do/

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Graeme1858 wrote: Tue Feb 02, 2021 8:52 pm Successful test, except for the end bit!
:lol:

Reminds me of "FAA speak" when they attribute an aviation accident to "controlled descent into terrain" (i.e. the pilot flew into a mountain).
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Looking forfard to this new launch of Starship. I interesting in this project and it`s main mission-delivering humans on the surface of Mars. And if Space X will be able to do that. At that moment this space ship looks very weak for a journey to Mars and it doest seem to me this journey will happen in 2024 like Musk promised.
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I guess the prototype exploded in today's launch.
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:doh:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN7855POvJ8

FF to about 02:48 and watch from there.
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As Elon said: "We'll learn something from the debris field."
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Latest from Musk on what went wrong. As usual his Twitter is the best place for information.

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