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Starship Flight 7

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649 points chinathrow | 2 comments | 16 Jan 25 21:25 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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mmaunder ◴[16 Jan 25 21:41 UTC] No.42731271[source]▶
Anyone care to give the non spacey folks like me the highlights of this launch?
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thisiscrazy2k ◴[16 Jan 25 23:43 UTC] No.42732396[source]▶
Space X has failed after 3 billion US tax payer dollars to take a banana into low earth orbit. Needless to say we aren't going to Mars last year watching a woman in a long dress floating in the cargo bay behind a curtain of glass windows playing a violin for entertaining the dozens of astronaut's which don't have space for food, water, belongings or life support.
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JumpCrisscross ◴[17 Jan 25 02:43 UTC] No.42733546[source]▶
> Space X has failed after 3 billion US tax payer dollars to take a banana into low earth orbit

Literally just lofted some satellites.

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tsimionescu ◴[17 Jan 25 12:22 UTC] No.42736768{3}[source]▶
*tried to, but lost them all
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ceejayoz ◴[17 Jan 25 13:41 UTC] No.42737415{4}[source]▶
No, they successfully sent two to the Moon on Weds. https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/14/science/nasa-launch-firefly-i...
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1. tsimionescu ◴[17 Jan 25 14:10 UTC] No.42737653{5}[source]▶
The point was about Starship - it has never successfully flown with any amount of cargo. The 3 billion number from the poster before makes it clear they were only referring to Starship, not all of SpaceX.

SpaceX is an extremely successful space launch company, and Falcon 9 is the best we've ever had. It's just Starship that seems to be going much worse.

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2. ceejayoz ◴[17 Jan 25 15:25 UTC] No.42738478[source]▶
Falcon 9 was once in the same spot; simulator payloads (a wheel of cheese), years of delays, a bunch of smashed-up first stages and drone ships, etc. Even more so if you count the Falcon 1 failures.

Starship has already demonstrated several key things work - the new engines, catching the booster, and on-target intact reentry of the second stage, all for about as much money as a single SLS launch is projected to cost. (Thus far, they've only had one for $26B.)