SpaceX SN9 Explodes on Landing

Re:SpaceX SN9 Explodes on Landing by ehsankia on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @08:04PM (#26009360)

SpaceX themselves made a failure montage for Falcon 9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvim4rsNHkQ

It's easy to forget how many failures that had, but look how far it has come, at this point I don't think they've had any major failures in 5+ years. Maybe a couple sea drone ship booster landing issues but zero mission failures in a very long time.

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Re:SpaceX SN9 Explodes on Landing by sneak on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @08:53PM (#26009681)

This is one of my favorite videos. On the SN9 explosion today my partner speculated that SpaceX should make one like this for Starship one day. :)

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Re:SpaceX SN9 Explodes on Landing by imglorp on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @10:28PM (#26010282)

Neat, seems pretty much any mistake results in a fireball.

Scott Manley and daughter have a fun song about other failures, "You will not go to space today", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ayu0GsrvKQA

I'm guessing the title is probably an allusion to this https://xkcd.com/1133/.

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Re:SpaceX SN9 Explodes on Landing by yellowapple on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @11:34PM (#26010646)

I was half expecting:

"If an O-ring gets a bit too cold, you will not go to space today"

...but I guess that's a bit too dark, eh?

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Re:SpaceX SN9 Explodes on Landing by imglorp on Thursday February 04, 2021 @08:10AM (#26025006)

"If your rocket runs at all engine rich, you will not go to space today..."

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