Starship V3 rocket completes first mission

[Hanno Labuschagne]

Starship V3 rocket completes first mission

SpaceX’s upgraded Starship successfully deployed mock satellites and returned to Earth largely unscathed, though its booster spun out of control and broke apart over the Gulf of Mexico.

The gigantic rocket’s twelfth major test flight was a successful, if slightly rough and incomplete, debut of the vehicle, which is critical to Elon Musk’s efforts to scale his rocket business into an artificial intelligence and satellite communications empire.

[Bloomberg]

 

[Blu82]

Some spectacular videos from the second v3 mission.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2080826996490199070

 

[Blu82]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2080807557992443969

 

[Brian_G]

Orbital trash

 

[wingnut771]

Orbital trash

 

[Brian_G]

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It's a big sky, but still, 1 000 000 satellites (and counting) ! You don't think that's a bit excessive, a bit corporatively stinky? Slightly unnatural?

 

[wingnut771]

It's a big sky, but still, 1 000 000 satellites (and counting) ! You don't think that's a bit excessive, a bit corporatively stinky? Slightly unnatural?

How many do you see when you look up?

 

[wingnut771]

It's a big sky, but still, 1 000 000 satellites (and counting) ! You don't think that's a bit excessive, a bit corporatively stinky? Slightly unnatural?

 

[Brian_G]

How many do you see when you look up?

Can you see all the poisonous gases?

 

[Brian_G]

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It's still too much, heading for who knows what. Not necessary.

 

[wingnut771]

Can you see all the poisonous gases?

Yes.

 

[wingnut771]

It's still too much, heading for who knows what. Not necessary.

 

[Brian_G]

 

[wingnut771]

Do you want internet in the Kalahari or not? What about the poor scientists in antartica?





Now they can watch netflix or stream The Thing in 4K.

 

[Brian_G]

It's not Starlink that's the issue, it's this Sky-AI BS. Most of what I'm seeing here is greed.


Even though "Climate Emergency" is an exaggeration of natural changes at best, pollution and abuse is still a thing.

 

[wingnut771]

It's not Starlink that's the issue, it's this Sky-AI BS. Most of what I'm seeing here is greed.


Even though "Climate Emergency" is an exaggeration of natural changes at best, pollution and abuse is still a thing.

Which part are you worried about?

 

[Smiggles]

It's not Starlink that's the issue, it's this Sky-AI BS. Most of what I'm seeing here is greed.


Even though "Climate Emergency" is an exaggeration of natural changes at best, pollution and abuse is still a thing.

I's been summer this whole winter.

 

[Brian_G]

I's been summer this whole winter.

Not quite, and maybe you forgot June already.

Since when is this existence luke warm? It changes.
When my gen. were kids we had real cold throughout a long winter, you guys don't know how that was.

If you need the link to a video made by real professionals in the field, not politically affiliated ones.. best part is how easy it is for them to prove

 

[purrr]

Half of it crashed so not what I call a success. SPCX down next week…