Starship

[balebearnard11]

As you probably all have seen the peace of news that Space X tested the space ship that is about to take a crewed mission to Mars in a few years. I wanna hear your thoughts about this test and was it really successful as Elon Musk claims?

 

[wiyosaya]

I have no idea what Musk is saying about the test flight, however, Starship exploded on landing - https://www.reuters.com/news/picture/spacexs-starship-prototype-explodes-on-l-idUSKBN28J39R
It is hard for me to say that that flight was totally successful. Note, however, that it is in Musk's interest for him to spin it as a total success.

 

[cliffordcooley]

In his defense, landing was not one of the main goals.

 

[wiyosaya]

In his defense, landing was not one of the main goals.

Landing, since he is intending to take this to Mars, seems pretty important. Seems rather wasteful to launch this and not intend it to land.

 

[cliffordcooley]

First attempts are hardly ever successful. They didn't take it up and let it just fall. They did attempt a landing. I can only imagine that freefall and controlled re-entry data was more important at this time. Now that they have that data, landing calculations which they have already can be implemented.