Musk SpaceX Starship Experiences "Major Anomaly"

 

You may recall South Afrikaner fascist Elon "Leon" Musk providing fireworks for us in the form of exploding SpaceX rockets (here, here, and here, just this year alone).  Last night, there was yet another major anomaly "rapid unscheduled disassembly" of a Musk SpaceX vehicle, perhaps the most dramatic and debilitating one (for SpaceX) yet:

 

From CBS:

A SpaceX Starship upper stage exploded in a spectacular conflagration during ramp-up to an expected engine test firing at the company's Starbase manufacturing facility on the Texas Gulf Coast late Wednesday, destroying the rocket in what appears to be a major setback for the Super Heavy-Starship vehicle Elon Musk says is critical to the company's future.

Video from LabPadre, a company that monitors SpaceX activities at Starbase, showed the Starship suddenly exploding in a huge fireball just after 11 p.m. CDT, 10 to 15 minutes before the anticipated engine test firing, sending flaming debris shooting away into the overnight sky from a churning fireball that engulfed the test stand. [snip]

The explosion's impact on the test site infrastructure was not immediately known. SpaceX has a history of making relatively quick recoveries from failures or setbacks but this mishap, along with destroying a nearly-ready-to-launch Starship, may have caused significant damage to Starbase infrastructure. In any case, the next test flight will be indefinitely delayed.

Known as Ship 36, SpaceX was expected to launch the Starship atop a huge Super Heavy booster around the end of the month on the integrated rocket's tenth unpiloted test fight. Hotfire tests are a normal precursor to actual flights, allowing engineers to verify upgrades and overall performance prior to committing it to launch...

Talk about waste, DOGEbags!  This should give the retribution- minded Malignant Fascist and the legion of Musk- haters in his regime a perfect opportunity to scale back or scrap Musk's expensive, taxpayer- funded fireworks enterprise. 

Another SpaceX "Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly"

 

South African fascist and Afrikaner white supremacist Elon "Leon" Musk is having problems not only at his failing Tesla car company, but his SpaceX rockets aren't cooperating with his geeky vision of space flight to Mars.  From Reuters:

"SpaceX's Tuesday night Starship launch went further than previous attempts.

But in the end it lost control and is believed to have disintegrated on reentry, marking another setback for Elon Musk's promise to put humans on Mars.

The two-stage spacecraft, consisting of the Starship vessel mounted atop a towering SpaceX Super Heavy rocket booster, blasted off at about 7:36 p.m. EDT (2336 GMT) from the company's Starbase launch site on the Gulf Coast of Texas near Brownsville.

SpaceX launched the Starship system with a previously flown Super Heavy booster for the first time, aiming to achieve a key demonstration of its reusability.

As expected, the 232-foot (71-m) first-stage rocket separated from the upper-stage Starship vehicle several minutes after launch and headed back toward Earth.

But SpaceX controllers lost contact with the booster during its descent before it presumably plunged into the sea instead of making the controlled splashdown the company planned." (our emphasis)

Musk, like his cult leader, can't accept losing, so he portrayed the setback as a "big improvement" over the last couple of launches, which also ended in disaster.  In their announcement, SpaceX called the failure a "rapid unscheduled disassembly," the same silly jargon that was used in the previous failures. 

It's past time for the U.S. to wean itself off of SpaceX's monopoly, which in itself is a national security problem given the dangerously mercurial and radical head of the company.  That won't happen in the Malignant Fascist's regime, since he's a MAGA icon and can hold his political contributions hostage, but it has to be done eventually.