https://apnews.com/article/spacex-launch-accident-booster-db396897fbb90d00ef18be886b3b1ce0
SpaceX launches are on hold after a booster rocket toppled over in flames while landing. The Federal Aviation Administration grounded the company's Falcon 9 rockets and ordered an investigation following Wednesday's accident off the Florida coast.
The title makes it sound like the FAA told SpaceX to go to their room, for being very naughty.
Considering I was unmanned, and there wasn't really any damage that seems extreme.
I mean this is the same guy whos been selling self-driving cars for the last decade that constantly warn you to never let them self-drive.
Not as much as you might think. Space launch rockets don't carry a lot of extra fuel beyond what's absolutely needed. Even propulsively landed rockets are almost empty.
If you want to be outraged, look at how much carbon dioxide is produced during ascent.
Most rockets crash into the ocean with all their contents on purpose. This one flew 23 times before finally shitting the bed on this landing.
Plus it did land on the barge. Most of the debris should be there, though the remaining fuel would have mainly gone overboard. Probably the flight termination explosives also.
That's impressive, I do wonder if they have some estimated lifespan for each rocket or how many times it's reusable. Unless they intend to just keep using it with minimal to no maintenance at all. Which I guess would eventually lead to this.
Significantly less than the extremely toxic, hypergolic fueled boosters China drops on their villages.
Pretty much just kerosene. So not the best, but not horrible. It just uses LOX and RP-1 (highly refined kerosene) for fuel.
What I get for saying something without googling first. I was expecting the hypergolic fueled mess of older rockets, but this is just a mess, but like, not THAT bad of a mess.
It's me, I'm the boomer.
Can you explain how a booster that flew 23 times is a loss when no other companies are doing it? I don't like Musk but people need to separate their views of him from SpaceX
The rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and got all 21 Starlink internet satellites to orbit. But the first-stage booster fell over in a fireball moments after landing on an ocean platform, the first such accident in years. It was the 23rd time this particular booster had launched, a recycling record for SpaceX.
Shit happens.
a recycling record for SpaceX.
The article writes "a recycling record for the entire fucking world" a little funny.