Before I had even left the launch viewing area in South Padre Island on Saturday morning headlines started to fill my news feed.
And the upper stage, Starship, had a failure that caused its flight termination system—explosives on board in case a vehicle begins flying off course—to detonate.
Leading with words like “failure” and “explosion” are kind of like putting the headline “Derek Jeter had a strike out” on a news story about the 2001 World Series game in which he later hit a walk-off home run.
Here’s what SpaceX actually accomplished with its second Starship launch on Saturday morning, from a narrow peninsula of land at the southern extremity of Texas.
Musk and SpaceX learned their lesson and completely redesigned and rebuilt the launch pad to incorporate a sophisticated water-based sound suppression system.
Afterward I spoke with Phillip Rench, an engineer who worked at SpaceX for five years and for a time directed the company’s Starbase facility near Boca Chica Beach in South Texas.
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Before I had even left the launch viewing area in South Padre Island on Saturday morning headlines started to fill my news feed.
And the upper stage, Starship, had a failure that caused its flight termination system—explosives on board in case a vehicle begins flying off course—to detonate.
Leading with words like “failure” and “explosion” are kind of like putting the headline “Derek Jeter had a strike out” on a news story about the 2001 World Series game in which he later hit a walk-off home run.
Here’s what SpaceX actually accomplished with its second Starship launch on Saturday morning, from a narrow peninsula of land at the southern extremity of Texas.
Musk and SpaceX learned their lesson and completely redesigned and rebuilt the launch pad to incorporate a sophisticated water-based sound suppression system.
Afterward I spoke with Phillip Rench, an engineer who worked at SpaceX for five years and for a time directed the company’s Starbase facility near Boca Chica Beach in South Texas.
The original article contains 525 words, the summary contains 165 words. Saved 69%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!