• FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
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    6 months ago

    Like you say, nobody is making this explosion out to be a deadly emergency but it also probably doesn’t inspire confidence when the company fails so much more often than it succeeds. Starship engines have been “unexpectedly” exploding for years.

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      6 months ago

      Fails more often than it succeeds? That’s… not even close to accurate.

      They’ve already had more than 50 successful missions this year.

      Testing doesn’t count as a failure, it counts as test data.

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        6 months ago

        I don’t think exploding was part of the test. I don’t think being investigated by the FAA in 2020 for failure to listen to warnings about unintended shockwave damage was part of their tests. I don’t think losing an entire rocket to a booster explosion last year was part of the test.

        I think their tests are throwing things at the stainless steel wall and hoping it sticks.