Starship goes up. Starship goes down. But is the program moving forward?

Re:Starship goes up. Starship goes down. But is the program ... by marcus_holmes on Thursday March 04, 2021 @08:44AM (#26342266)

Obviously yes.

The mindset of "experiments aren't a failure if we learned something" seems to be eluding yet another commentator.

To be fair, it also seems to elude most of academic publishing.

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Re:Starship goes up. Starship goes down. But is the program ... by greedo on Thursday March 04, 2021 @09:08AM (#26342626)

Berger isn't just some guy; he's literally written the book on SpaceX. Perhaps this is a case of the headline being written by the editor, not the author...

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Re:Starship goes up. Starship goes down. But is the program ... by mchusma on Thursday March 04, 2021 @09:25AM (#26342831)

Headline is really bad, and doesn't particularly match the rest of the article. Although even the article questions whether the number of explosions here are too much to win large contract coming up soon. Since the contract is political, it's possible, although if I had to pick a rocket to ride on next year, I'd pick Starship over New Glenn or SLS at this point.

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Re:Starship goes up. Starship goes down. But is the program ... by nkoren on Thursday March 04, 2021 @09:48AM (#26343077)

Well, from a safety point of view, you'd obviously be much safer going with New Glenn or SLS.

There's very little risk if you never leave the ground.

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Re:Starship goes up. Starship goes down. But is the program ... by marcus_holmes on Thursday March 04, 2021 @11:29AM (#26344453)

thanks, good to know :)

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