SpaceX Loses Control of Starship, Adding to Spacecraft’s Mixed Record

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By “mixed” they mean it hasn’t been able to attain orbit without exploding

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Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

By “mixed” they mean it hasn’t been able to attain orbit without exploding

Has it been able to attain orbit while exploding?

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- MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Even some of it?
  
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- evidences@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Technically they could have done it on flight 3 but they’ve purposely put all of them into a suborbital trajectory.
  
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endeavor@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
spacex is secretly a russian company.

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