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Initially Musk claimed the reason for steel outer skin was because it doesn't need a heat shield. Turns out it does. An ablative heat shield might be easier to apply to the ship, but obviously would need to be rebuilt for each flight. So instead, let's go for a complicated tiling system. They're...

Flying people to orbit on this is likely never going to happen due to a lack of launch abort system. This thing is nothing but a shell and it'll take many more iterations before it's ready for anything useful. Landing this on the Moon is just asking for trouble, given that it's tall and narrow...

I wonder at what point do they call this a sunk cost...

Will. Has not yet. At the moment, AI is able to speed up actual typing, but it's not able to creatively solve problems. It may take a few more years and AI programmers, able to do my job better than me are coming. But at the moment, a person that isn't better than the AI just laying down a...

I think the "breaking apart" thing happens on its own as a feature of the Starship. They call it a "RUD", which stands for: Success :P

Goddamn vibe coders...

Another successful test flight by SpaceX Starship!

Just goes to show that modern technology and manufacturing methods cannot compensate for stupidity.

Is anyone gonna tell Elon that his dumbass Starship idea does not work? :/

That is one ugly baby! Holy crap... The modelling and texture work is really good, though :P

The criteria for success is getting a bit odd...

Starship: Brought to you by the same genius currently attempting to... "fix" the US government. I'm sure it'll go fine!

So they jettison it for show?

Very good result by BO, actually. They may be behind with their development, but SpaceX was behind ULA when building F1 and F9. In the mean time, "Starship go boom hurr hurr" is getting really old.

It's looking like there's no way Starship can really land on the Moon or Mars without debris destroying it.

Ouch. They can't even be trusted with FTS =/

I very much doubt that this is the only test that would have gathered the required data. I very much doubt the telemetry will tell them something groundbreaking or that the data they get back will be groundbreaking. The whole "it's a success if it gets off the pad, damn everything else" goal is...

Now it makes me wonder why FAA or whoever approves these flights actually gave regulatory approval. This whole "Shatship go boom boom hurr hurr" happy-go-lucky approach seems very reckless. It seems it doesn't even matter what they trash along the way or who they might kill.

I am not sure why everyone is congratulating SpaceX for this. The more we see, the bigger the disaster this seems to be. If this was a NASA launch and it somehow was launched in this state, it'd be considered a failure. The amount of debris launched around the launch pad and left by the rocket...

I'm shocked it made it as far as it did, it was shedding parts all along its flight. Multiple engines failed and it looks like exhaust from some in quite a bit different. I wonder if RSO blew it up or what.