Starship News

[BravoXray]

The booster suffered a RUD, rapid unscheduled disassembly, when it fired 13 engines for the landing burn.

 

[ruffdog]

Hopefully Starship will complete it's mission this time and land in the Indian Ocean.

It sounds like the pieces that survived reentry will end up at the bottom of the Indian Ocean.

The booster also crashed and will add to the junk at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.

 

[ruffdog]

Starship 36 just went BOOM. (unscheduled rapid disassembly)

 

[EddieWalker]

Sometimes it makes me wonder how we went to the moon with 1969 technology, but in 2025 it seems almost impossible to build a rocket that can get there

 

[MossRoad]

It was "caused by a major anomaly"

I think my dad served under him in WWII

 

[MossRoad]

Sometimes it makes me wonder how we went to the moon with 1969 technology, but in 2025 it seems almost impossible to build a rocket that can get there

Gotta remember the ones that got us to the moon, and all the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo rockets before it were all disposable, one shot, one use machines.

 

[ArlyA]

And many blew up in test flights.

 

[ponytug]

And the Apollo guidance computer was a 16bit 2MHz computer with magnetic core weave memory (exactly what it sounds like).

Apollo Guidance Computer - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

It is amazing to me that it managed to hit the return angle and location accurately every time.

All the best,

Peter

 

[MossRoad]

Good stuff!

 

[EddieWalker]

Gotta remember the ones that got us to the moon, and all the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo rockets before it were all disposable, one shot, one use machines.

I understand that. But isn't that what Japan is using, and failing with the last couple of attempts? They have the best computers, engineers and scientist, but they can't do what we did in 1969? It just seems crazy to me.