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SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft exploded in space minutes after launching from Texas, marking the second consecutive failure this year.

The rocket spun uncontrollably before breaking apart, with debris seen over Florida and the Bahamas. The cause remains unclear, though multiple engines shut down before contact was lost.

The failure raises concerns about setbacks in Elon Musk’s Mars rocket program. The FAA temporarily halted flights at major Florida airports due to falling debris.

A similar Starship failure in January scattered wreckage over the Caribbean.

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This is not news

Wake me up when a space ship does not explode, so that for once SpaceX crew will not be cheering

Reminder that SpaceX is owned and run by scammer Nazi Elmo Musk who literally lies about everything. Musk is gutting government subsiding everywhere yet SpaceX floats on billions of dollars to blow up rockets. Waste? Naaahh.

Fuck SpaceX, its a scam just as the rest of Elmo

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's news because it's dropping hazardous material over populated areas.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Yes, exactly.

They've been doing that so much now that it's not news but the expected outcome. It's no news liek trump impromptu deciding to do something stupid and three days later reverting it. Sure, the details differ slightly each time, but the actual event is just the same over and over and over, making it not news

[–] modifier@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Waitwaitwait, you're telling me Elon Musk runs SpaceX???

Friend I get what you're saying but this newest explosion is quite literally news, and pretty much everyone here knows that it is news that affects the asshole raping our country right now, which is why it is such newsy news. So I am not sure what your point is.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

You're missing the point in that space x rockets blow up more than they don't, literally, showing that the company is incompetent and without massive aid from the US government it would cease to exist immediately.

This leads also to the point where Elmo musk is and has been a scammer for all his life. He was incompetent back then, he is moreso now. All he does is hype people and governments to give him loads of money and then he gives shit back

3 billion at least to watch space x crew cheer over blowing up a banana over the Indian ocean, money well spent!