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SpaceX's Latest Starship Explodes During Ground Test
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- Published on Jan 16, 2026
- Starship #36 was getting ready for a flight, which meant a series of ground tests, and during run up to the 6 engine static fire something went catastrophically wrong.
Elon Musk has since states that a COPV failure is the most likely explanation.
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4 hours after this was posted Elon tweeted that the leading suspect is a COPV failing below its design pressure, these are primarily used with nitrogen for things like the fire suppression system. If true it's possible that a tank was damaged by technicians during installation, small damage to composites can lead to early failure after fewer cycles than expected. A high pressure cylinder breaking under pressure would knock holes int the side of the payload area and break the downcomers connecting the header tanks.
Fire suppression system might have caused a fire, then, eh?
I'm guessing that they are using GHe in the COPV, but I don't know. Yes, handling damage is one of the failure modes I didn't list. COPV protection during manufacturing and integration is a tenant. don't pull protective covers off until all overhead work is completed....
You're fan-boying a bit too hard. And trusting Musk a bit too easily. Also, if such a failure resulted in a catastrophic event, perhaps there's a lot more wrong here than you suspect. I know SpaceX is all about move fast and break stuff. But, they seem to break a lot of stuff because of simple errors and thats put them years off schedule. We don't talk about schedule now, do we?
Full confidence restored.
I mean this happened all the time during the Apollo program.
And the NASA director also issued encouraging statements prematurely after each explosion.
I dunno, if it's such a fickle component, what does that say about reusability of Spaceship? I mean, how would that component handle rough reentries over the time?
The payload door finally opened.
Got to be the top comment! 😂
Brutal and funny. 😂
Fire primes the satellites 🤪
Another "successful" test. 😂
@rofflestomp684 “We got great data” 😂
8:35 white smoke means a new chief engineer has been chosen
lol! 😂
Very original 🤦♂️
Well played, sir.
Cybo yes it is original, you really saw this joke before?
Love it! 😊
Static fire test result: Fire still works reliably.
By mistake they placed the rocket upside down onto the pad, the nozzle was at the top. :D :D
4:10 - "We don't know the effects of inhaling glass fibres", well, Scott, we do and it causes medical conditions such as asbestosis, silicosis and worst-case, mesothelioma.
Asbestos causes asbestosis. Silica causes silicosis.
@HackedUpForBarbeque Asbestos IS a silicate mineral, well actually a mixture of several different silicate minerals.
Also, death
YOU OR A LOVED ONE MAY BE ENTITLED TO FINANCIAL COMPENSATION
Guys, it's starting to look like we're not gonna get to Mars in 2022
Eh, we can't be sure what effect a wormhole might have on time, if it's anything like the edge of a black hole we might be ahead of schedule.
By far the best one.
Specializing in making the late merely impossible
hehe
🤣
The late Starship(V)1 flights didn’t explode until splashdown. The early (V)2 flights exploded in flight. This (V)2 flight exploded on the pad. I predict that, if these trends continue, we’ll see Starship(V)3 explode in the stacking hall, Starship(V)4 explode while still being manufactured, and Starship(V)5 will explode while it’s still in CAD.
Crashes are normal when it’s running on Windows.
🤡
Oh sureb how do you know it's not Mac OS?
@Dave5843-d9mor if they’re using Solidworks
"will explode while it’s still in CAD" 💀
At least V2 is being consistent.
I prefer my V2s to be made by Germans
@Trek001 SpaceX does not call it V2 - it is Block 2. Scott even showed the right naming in a diagram
@fourteenfour1 V2 is more fitting
@fourteenfour1 well, its still "vee" two, right
consistent at rapid unscheduled disassembly
Can't wait to get in that thing and fly to Mars last year!!!
Any day now! Ask tRump, it will be two weeks.
You will also be able to select seating sections: Well done or Slightly toasted
Ok who wants to go to Mars now ? 😊
Mars is God's land
People who bought into tesla ppts are almost on the way back to earth
V2 seems to be made with a lot more explodium than V1 was
I think maybe Scott was on to something that SpaceX may had done too many adjustments to lighten the vehicle up. Without any info, there no way to be surely.
Yeah, the explodium/destrutium ratio appears to be off….
@Wrangler-fp4ei My suspicion why V2 is that the V1 payload was zero.
Badaboom yaaaaaaaaaa😮 oh wait it's not July 4th🤣
It did not reach London
Space X have streamlined their process by removing the boring flying bit.
I dunno, I saw a lot of bits of it flying everywhere.
How to start decommissioning your rocket company
@thelyrebird1310China is wondering... should we copy?
DOGE level efficiency on display.
The best part is no part
Bug Report: Exploded
Expected behaviour: Not exploding
Workaround: Remove Explodium
@CathrineMacNiel I like that you labeled it "workaround" rather than "fix". 😅
Report: explody but pretty
Expected behaviour: Not explody but boring.
Boring is better.
Bug Report: Front fell off
Expected behaviour: it's not meant to do that
Location: out of the environment
Material: cardboard is out - as well as cardboard derrivatives
Report: Conflagration
Expected Behaviour: Conflagration in controlled direction
We must be close to the solution (?)
Your stop frame detailed analysis is what sets your videos apart, Thanks again Scott Manley !!!
After further analysis, I can indeed say this is suboptimal
It's also suborbital
def sub orbital
Very concerning, looking into it 😎
Nah, more data more better
In a most spectacular way.
4:10 "we don't know the effects of breathing tiny glass fibres"
The health effects of tiny glass fibres entering the lungs are well known in excruciating detail.
will be same as asbestos
@supernova4760 yes of silica. the fuck do you think asbestos is made of?
@supernova4760
Er, silicosis says otherwise.
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicoastronothermokeramoconiosis
@supernova4760silicosis
Thank heavens no one was seriously hurt.
..guys I don’t think starship is gonna fly in 11 days
Well part of it certainly did
maybe Trump wants to fly it over Iran. They will surrender at once.
It just launched ahead of schedule and you're still not satisfied?!
Not in the sense you mean.
@ArgoshRapid unscheduled launch.
“You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off”
😂😂
🤣
@StillAliveAndKicking You just won the internet today 😂
Excellent reference
Open the pod bay doors, Hal.
TOO FAST!
"Engine fire test"
I saw it, I saw the fire, great job guys.
110% success!
Boooom
Big baddaboooom
Engines: check
Fire: check
Testing successful
Ship rich Static fire.
We needed a close up for Intel. Major success!
A chemist who deals with liquid oxygen was talking to me a few months ago about the way Spacex loads their starship with Oxygen first and then methane and he thought it odd for one main reason - methane has a relatively low liquid range, from -160 to -180c (These are approximate temps as I cant remember them exactly, but they are within a degree or two), and it begins to freeze at -180c. Liquid oxygen ranges from -180 to -220c, so it is possible to cause some frozen methane to form in the pipes from the loading point to the methane tanks. This is not an issue when there is flow as any "ice" would move to the relatively warmer tank and melt, but during that initial Liquid Methane filling he thought they would have had more issues with it freezing up, and maybe causing a partial blockage and then release akin to a form of water hammer.
That was a constructive comment.👍
Wow, great insight, thanks.
The freezing point of methane is like -295 Deg F, so they would be well above that temperature with the liquid phase being about -260 Deg F so there wouldn't be any "ice" in the transfer piping. Liquid Oxygen would be transferred using a totally separate set of piping so never the two would mix (until they meet in the combustion chamber)
V2s are well-known for exploding on the ground, but usually in London in the 1940s.
Having come off of Version 1 of Starship (abbreviated V1), and now on Version 2 (shortened to V2), I recommend pressing ahead to Version 3 quickly so that the media shorthand stops mentioning V1 and V2 in relation to rockets. The Peenemunde word association is unfortunate and flirting with creepy.
@bobcastro9386 Elon Musk is a Nazi.
At least the real V2s often went up, first.
"Once ze rockets go up, who cares where zey come down? Zat's not my department!" Says Werner Von Braun.
@Jesse-qy6ur you might think that SpaceX got 80 years of better technology and learned from others but you see the germans got Wernher von Braun so its about equal
”Move fast and break stuff”. They got the ”break stuff” part nailed. 50%, is not that bad. 😂
If they fail faster they will soon invented hyperspace drives 🙂
They are breaking those rockets at record pace though
I agree this was very fast. They even cut out the lift off part to break the thing even faster.
This is why he wants to make 1000 Starships a year, at least a few of them might survive refueling more than a couple of times, maybe.
The Zucc got to SpaceX.
When filming Starship, always set your camera to exploding rocket mode.
Even the CGI on these Space-X launches seems like it came from an elementary school student.
They haven’t even made orbit yet. Forget about Mars. And despite what any fan bois want to say, Artemis made it to the moon and back on the first try.
Agree.
But it wasn't a cheap trip.
different approaches to the problems different goals. We know how to get to the moon, we even know how to get to mars and beyond, but we want it to be much cheaper and that needs innovation. Obv SpaceX is struggling with that upper stage atm. but it's not fan boying to want them to succeed and be excited for the theoretical specs of starship. They can push starship to orbit easily enough, but as long as the thing still blows up midair, or even on the ground you don't want to do that.
How does Artemis influence Starship engineering?
@ploed how expensive is starship? As far as I know we dont know because its a private company and well most of artemis spending is in development and that works.
After ten times the time and cost lol and delivering far less potential
Its really optimized by now. All the energy stored in the rocket is released a lot faster and a lot earlier.
And it all returned to earth in just a few minutes.
@pattheplanter arguably it is reusable too, just not as quickly as expected.
@HarryNicNicholas given a good mop and a shovel they might be able to reuse that. They have forges on site, do they?
@jasonmiles2422
Don't worry grok is working on reversing entropy.
It'll be ready to roll out next year
Took that DOGE work to heart. Making the failures happen with more efficiency.
I see Honda had a great test lift and return.
The Power of Dreams
So low key! I mean they've already kinda got the money/foundation to try but what a juxtaposition from SX.
@RUclipsispoo-o6d
Well, it might be that Honda is not run by a narcissistic psychopath. Maybe. I don't really know. Just a thought.
Having worked with Honda on their automotive side of things...they are incredibly diligent and question absolutely everything and demand proof. I highly doubt SpaceX has 1% of the discipline when it comes to engineering development of Honda
The Japanese are a much different caliber in discipline and precision - and still they fail landing on the moon. (However they make it that far, at least to the ground of the Moon.)
Actually Scott, we know exactly what the result is from breathing in those glass fibres.
Think asbestosis/silicosis.
Basically, get a lungfull of those by-products, it's a lifetime of at least worry, it not actual pain.
Yep. Pulmonary silicosis.
Restrictive lung disease
DO NOT FEAR! They tweeted there's no hazards to the residents of the surrounding community. 🫁 Nothing to see here please move along
Maybe not if they are no longer fibres. But hey, who thinks it's a good idea to be downwind of any rocket exploding?
Hey give him a break he literally recorded this at like 2 am lmao
The question is more what was actually released. The very small fiber particles are the most dangerous, the ones you get from grinding, cutting, etc. Exploding the spaceship does not necessarily release a lot of fine particles.
They have the "Blow shit up" part down to a science
So, the front fell off.
That's where humans will be sitting
Derivative Cardboard painted silver?
Look, these are built to very rigorous maritime engineering standards.
It's not meant to do that
The trunk is coming off now
we got the Red robe of doom back 👏🏼
youtube putting the blue hyperlink text on “robe” is depressing
@bendydrecher772 you just have a virus
Don't use the app.
This would be the perfect time for that clip from Galaxy Quest: "But it's inside out. And it exploded."
You broke the bloody ship!
@wotireckon "Hold please."
Scott, at this point a ‘major test anomaly’ for SpaceX would be the successful completion of a mission. What we see here this explosion is SpaceX achieving their anticipated results!
"The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades."
"Carol Anne? Listen to me! Do not go into the light! Stop where you are! Turn away from it! Don't even look at it!" - Poltergeist (1982)
I mean they achieved reliable full FSD technology (Full Self Destruction)
"I wear my sunglasses at night."
You mean a welding helmet.
Ive got a patch on my motorcycle jacket of a mushroom cloud that says " The future never looked so bright"
Maybe V2 wasn't the best choice of name? It's really trying to emulate the original 💥
But musk is a fascist, remember?
Given Musk's current leanings, I feel like the name V2 is pretty much 'on brand' for him.
It wasn't. That's why they call it block1, block2, etc. It's just commenters that call it v2.
@witchdoctor1394 Not a Musk enthusiast, but what makes you make that comparison?
@danw9464 Throwing the ol' Seig Salute on TV, funding the AFD's rise in German politics... Judt call it a hunch, I guess.
I think this is the fastest you’ve ever put out and impromptu episode.
It's getting easier, though, because now he doesn't even have to wait for the flight failure.
They didn't even start the engines before the explosion happened. The thing just spontaneously cracked open at the top and all the fuel went out. This is next level failure.
either they over pressurized the header tank, or it suffered structural failure. Either way, that's just incredibly sloppy work.
It is almost as if it were a Tesla.
@Hotarg They are looking at the COPVs again as the cause.
It's not ideal to breathe anything small and fibrous, Silicosis is nasty.
I inhaled a cottonwood fairy while bicycling. It was alarming.
@a.nameline653i imagine the fairy was less than thrilled by the experience
That's kinda the reason asbestos got banned
@weazelzinacan8866 but the ban is perhaps going to be lifted in the US :/
Big time. I don't know about the present but a few years back, it was sold to auto shops for oil clean up. You could see the floating shrapnels of reflected light in the air.
Scott is looking more and more like john malkovich
One in the same
Lmaoo
Being Scott Manley
Next video he's going to be talking like him hahaahha
The Hood.
Looks safe enough for Trumpy to book a ride on the next flight
Yup it'll fine
We could all chip in for the ticket price, if it were free to him, he might jump at the opportunity, given his level of cognition. Or promise to buy some tRump shiitecoin.
I thought the concept of iterative design was to have less explosions as the design matures....
Problem is if you change so much the design doesn't mature it's just always a new design 😂
This is the MAGA version of iterative design, everything just blows up bigger as one goes along.
@rorykeegan1895 MAGA math that 1+1 is 3 doesnt work if you're trying to launch rockets
Fewer
A few years ago they were mass producing raptors like there is no tomorrow...
I guess the plan was to explode most of them?
The change in the commentator's voice beginning at 1:05 was priceless. Relaxed then shocked in a split second as the rocket exploded.
I love the "that's not good". Understatement
By the time Elon gets to Mars there'll already be a Chinese restaurant open.
Oh man finally a reason to visit.
😂😂😂😂
With 25 BYDs in the parking lot.
Thanks for playing folks. We have a winner. Funniest comment on RUclips.
...the only person that has ever been to and ever will go is Matt Damon.
Needs more Ketamine propellant
Thunderf00t's day: made.
He should change his name to CrabFoot, as in crabs in a bucket.
omg imagine TF's video if this was caused by an engineer not understanding the latent heat of water vapor.
@MPAPAyes Lol. He's been wrong about a lot of shit and will never own up to it. He's a grifter and clout chaser, there is no money in apologizing or having basic integrity. Easier for him to delude himself into thinking his education makes him an expert on every topic and ignore everything to the contrary.
He has a streak of such days now.
@Nyx_2142Are you talking about Thunderf00t or Elon Musk?
Rapid dissasembly without reentry. Huge milestone. Congratulations SpaceX
Perfect.
Conflagration without expectation.
😂😂😂😂
RDWL. Rapid disassembly without launch.
"We had a slight mishap, but we got a lot of data from it and at least this time the door opened, albeit violently"
Instead of scattering all the Rapid Unscheduled Dismantled parts all over the Gulf of Mexico, SpaceX kept them in their own area, which is an improvement.
Gulf of America
Gulf of Mexico? Where's that?
@iBlameJordan. Only losers in one country call it that, don't think google changing it legitimized it, they do that very every wannabee dicatorship.
@iBlameJordan. no such place.
I hope the gulf of America comments are sarcasm
Static test got a little kinetic
Dynamic even
Definitely less static than intended.
There have been much more kinetic static tests. Cough Tianlong-3 Y1 cough
Such wasted potential
@callmeshaggy5166amazing comment
That colony on mars is just around the corner, the hyperloop guy told us so.
1:25 Epic cameraman shoving the filter in front of it. You can see his finger in shot.
That's so awesome, also you can tell even from the beginning that exploded was the uppermost part of the rocket.
That'll be excellent for diagnostics.
@jonslg240 "diagnostic," the pressure tank ruptured. We have entire government organizations dedicated to this kind of incident.
In Alberta we have ABSA, that's the Alberta Boiler Safety Association. This should be a "shut down the site" kind of incident.
Spaceflight now shoves fingers elsewhere, as well.
@Grunchy005why? Experimental technology fails all the time. This is different than some high school drop out forgetting to tighten a bolt… this is real work from real smart people.
@spoon-originalhahahahahahaahahahaha so smart that they cant even get into outer space hahahaha
saw the red dressing gown - thought this can't be good.
The data acquired on the probability of a Starship being successfully refuelled 15-20 times in orbit for a trip to the moon has been invaluable.
Sound s about right
Don't scare the stock holders showing them the truth. Don't scare the government showing that you have nothing still
No, we just learned that Elon has no quality control.
@jasminejeanine2239 I'm sure he has quality control... They report the issues, and Musk fires them. Everyone's doing their job 👍
@jasminejeanine2239 well, Quality Control would be a part of the design/build process, and Musk says "The best part is no part". At least he's consistent.
When you use a chainsaw instead of a scalpel.
i guess the only good thing is now they have a massive factory they can basically redesign and build a new part and have it in the next ship asap. but when me and my friends are building something we say we need to have a stare at the problem and i think space x needs to stand back and have a right good stare.
Definitely going to use “have a stare” now!
That blowed up real good.
For a not-first, not too bad.
I give it a 3/5
Elon is definitely the best at blowing things up.
Yes, they learned a lot from the gathered data. ;-P The test was 99.8% successful. They have decided that something should be changed. Magnificent....anybody got any ketamine?
SCTV Lives.
The table of explosion tests.
Exploding after landing
Exploding on landing
Exploding in flight
Exploding on the ground
Next will be exploding before built.😂
Exploding the CAD-file will be a challenge too ...
Edit: meant both types of exploding. The 'boom'-type as wel as the 'exploded-view' of the entire CAD-file of the entire assembly.
Exploding diagram?
Exploding while fueling...
@cherokee43v6 Underrated joke 😂
I heard it took out another vehicle that was under construction, so..................
Take a hike, Elon
I think the original V2 was designed to explode as well.
"I aim for the stars, but sometimes I miss, and hit London."
-- WvB
Oh please dont compare us with incompetent US engineers.
This Starship "V2" is really living up to its name!
Edit: I mean, it's still uncontrollable, but hey, baby steps
Yes, but at the other end of the flight.
Elon is the Dr Strangelove of our era
"Open the payload bay door Hal."
"I'm sorry, Dave; I can't do that."
@starguy2718 - Starship: Hold my beer!
@starguy2718 "Then I'll blow it off."
"Fuel line pumps nominal, tank pressure nominal... uh... pressure vessel rupture nominal... giant ball of fire nominal, rapid unscheduled disassembly of tank farm nominal..."
Not sure that “unscheduled” is the right word any more.
lots of valuable data collected. Huge, nominal fireball is hot and looks pretty but slows down launch progress by a tiny but nominal bit.
Launch site punctured by unnumerable debris nominal
Explodes on every test, just as scheduled @rickardmatt1
Non-engineers don’t understand just how hard it is to get a nominal fireball like that. Pure skill.
when people said NASA was an expansive waste of tax dollars... meanwhile Space X gets billions in contracts...
I'm sure it'll have full self driving this time next year
Actually it already does ;) all the rockets do.
And how late are everyone else? Everyone promised self-driving cars by 2020, and nobody is even close. Waymo has at least something, but it's limited to certain areas and far too expensive.
Meanwhile Tesla has a dirt cheap solution that works anywhere. Yes, it's late, but at least it exists. And they are rolling out the unsupervised version right now.
@andrasbiro3007 Hi Elon
@andrasbiro3007 so in your world, jokes don’t exist?
bet you didnt know that people can put your name on a list for all test flights. i put your name on the list lol bring the smores
Wow! I know Scott has collected some Soviet era space programme artifacts but turning a Sputnik into a microphone is top level indulgence!
lol! I know, I found it difficult to not keep looking at that instead of Scott.
Sputnik is still in orbit too!
@flightsimdev No it's not. It re-entered after just 22 days in low Earth orbit due to atmospheric drag.
@grndkntrl Yeah sorry I was thinking of Vanguard-1 still in orbit.
@grndkntrl more like three months.
Lol I was just telling my dad "oh I bet scott manley will have a video out soon" haha.
"Moon is a waste of time" guy seems to be struggling with just standing on the ground.
Scott, when you said “creators on the ground”, I heard “craters on the ground”, such is the Freudian effect of listening to one thing while watching video of a Starship explode. I think if you had said “dog” at that point, I would have heard “woof”
🌭
what a waste ,all the high tec and skill computer power data to check every element How can they get to Mars they cut corners on weight and materials and many weak points especially contain the fuel
That debris can't be good for the local wildlife refuge. 😞
Not that they care
It's just pieces of metal and ceramics. Some funny looking rocks to the animals.
@cube2foxjust a little 🔥warm noise🔥 is all…
The NSF footage was used on the nightly news here in Australia tonight too.
tv should ask for permission
@giaccomusic You have no idea wether or not they asked for permission
@giaccomusic meanwhile... korean news sources decided to blur the watermark and not even put a link in the description.
@NamTony17yeah that's a lawsuit
@furriesinouterspaceUnited "a work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person's official duties" is public domain. Copyright Act of 1976.
Anyone can build a bridge that stays up, it takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stays up.
"You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!"
10:57 "They've optimised lot of stuff. They've tried to cut out a lot of excess, extraneous mass." Yeah - by blowing it to smithereens!
Let us know when your reusable rocket makes it to orbit.
They cut out the expensive "we need to launch it to make it explode" procedure.
It has a lot less mass now...
Looks like “Best part is no part” backfires.
@Dalidoso Yeah, WTH, throw out all the necessary parts, too. "We can iterate the design".
SpaceX is going to learn so much, this is the bestest, most successfulest test ever.
Mostest sarcasticutous comment everously. 😂👍🏻
lol yes we now know our designs are totally flawed garbage
😂😂😂😂
Kamala voters 🤣
@PBRRoughStockRanch Get over it. That was the last success Elon and his pet had.
As a Brit, hearing a rocket being referred to as a V2 feels a little strange.
"Rapid unscheduled disassembly", "major anomaly"... let see how many obfuscating terms SpaceX is able to come up to avoid saying "blew up" or "exploded" ?
I prefer mine better: "improvised explosive device"
"Thermal event" is one the auto industry is fond of.
Fantastic footage from D Wise.
One of NSF’s best photographers IMO.
2:00 Explaining to Nextdoor 😂❤😂 I had to quit that coop of crazies… You don’t want to know how nuts your neighbors are… in that way it’s worse than Facebook… solid analysis of footage as always…
NASA will never put an astronaut in a lift off of Starship. I wouldn't.
Brilliant review. Only one glaring error: "we don't know the effects of breathing tiny glass fibres."
Actually.... GLASS fibers are not bad, they can cause irritation in airways in large amount and worsen asthma etc, but that will regular house dust do too. But glass fibers are inert and importantly, the body will expel it within 24-48 hours. There is also no evidence that glass fiber cause cancer. Silica on the other hand is a totally different story, and the tiles mainly consist of that, so not sure why he mixed up silica and glass.
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
Fibrosis. Ask someone who installs or tears out insulation for a living, without face protection. One-time exposure and you'll be fine, life-long exposure? Not so much.
What do you mean
@spooders8424 I believe s/he may be referring to asbestos. Inhaling asbestos fibres for decades may take 30~40 years to finally manifest as asbestosis, an often fatal lung disease. See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asbestosis
How much explosion data does SpaceX need to collect?
They won’t be content until they set the record for largest non nuclear explosion.
They still need to get data of a fully fuelled stack exploding on the pad. My guess is it is really just a matter of time till they get that data though 😊
More data means they can blow up the next rockets with less fuel. EFFICIENCY!
Eh... probably MORE
Elon is still busy collecting your personal data!
"We don't know the effects of breathing tiny glass fibers". Actually, we do. Fiberglass if not a new material. The answer is 'not great but better than asbestos'.
Just regular fiberglass is completely harmless. The fibers are so large they get caught in the mucus and expelled from the lungs. They're maybe irritating to the lungs and esophagus but that's about it and temporary
These glass fiber composities are a bit different than fiberglass. The scale of the particles and their structure is a lot different, and could make them more harmful.
Not great, not terrible
@semedianindustries It's pretty terrible.
@XIIchiron78 That may be so, but I very much doubt that SpaceX is the only company in the world using them or that safety has not been analyzed for the factories that manufacture them. Yes SpaceX may have their own proprietary unique recipe of ingredients but I expect the actual ingredients are not that rare. I would be a lot more concerned about the non-silica ingredients as we know a lot about silica in general. They likely contain aluminum and boron but even those are not that unusual additives to glass. In general breathing any particles is not good for you, but most have only short term negative effects unless they are in very large amounts. What you want to watch out for is carcinogens and stuff that does not break down and continues to cause issues for decades like asbestos.
I love it whenever an unmanned Space X vehicle has an unplanned disassembly.
One of the first things I thought of while watching NSF's stream was, "I wonder what Scott Manley will say about this"
Thanks for such a fast upload, take care!
That Starship was just throwing its heart out.
😂
Are we sure it wasn't doing a "Roman salute?"
*_its_* heart
@prltqdf9🤦♂️👍
"I give my heart to BOOOOM!"
I really like the quote about "barely building a bridge"
It looks like Block 2 is built too thin for weight reduction. Would explain the constant RUD connected to major leaks.
Yeah could well be. But in the long term, better to go minimal and build up what is necessary than to build overly heavy and never know how much margin is being left on the table.
But in the short term it's an ugly and slow process.
bad welding... It's been the bane of SpaceX for years.
@scottwatrous yeah sure 😂
@scottwatrous Nope
@scottwatrousThat's what we did at Ford. Run the thinnest steel possible and gradually increased the thickness until the rejection rate was low enough to be acceptable.
A detonation starts from the floor. A deflagration hangs from the ceiling. ... Wait, I'm not sure about that.
Either way...kaboom.
Good enough definition for me. I'm not the one going to Mars anyway.
"Any idiot can build a bridge that stands, but it takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stands"
Real engineers build to an excess load factor.
No, they cannot.
Hahah yeah the version I've heard was "Anyone can make a bridge that lasts a hundred years, but it takes an engineer to make a bridge that lasts exactly a hundred years."
The Neighbor app cracks me up. It’s always someone asking if someone heard a gunshot.
Space X is deep into the sunk cost fallacy with Starship at this point.
Cancel the tax money sent to spacex.
Nasa is deep into sunk cost fallacy with Starship at this point.
@ThatOpalGuy nah, tax money is not paying for this. What spacex does with their profits is of no concern to us, it's a private company.
then how do you get to the space station?@ThatOpalGuy
The falcon line of rockets are still going strong and are reliable.
With their income they can continue with this starship development for another 5 years before they should be worried.
so glad this was our choice for lunar lander 👏
What were the realistic alternatives? ULA?
@atomicsmith Blue Origins lunar lander and Dinetics lunar lander.
@atomicsmithliterally anyone.
@dazuk1969And how many successful launches have they had?
@BradyBegemanMcDonald’s? Pfizer? Boeing? Goldman Sachs? Mattel?
We can always use the Hyperloop to go to Mars when the rockets fail.....😉😉
And the Hypertunnel has an even faster imaginary speed than the Hyperloop! 4,000 MPH vs 670 MPH, respectively.
Looks like the tank split open and blowup😅
Honestly, I'm glad this happened here rather than the Launch Pad. This is why it's tested first. Some follow-up footage of the aftermath could also be informative. Thanks for your coverage angle, Scott!
Yeah, well. Normal people would have been more confident if it hadn't exploded at all.
They better hope they don’t have the same outcome with booster. It’s static fired right next to their only orbital capable fuel farm. They have a 2nd pad in progress but it uses the same fuel farm. Also keep in mind they have been testing starship quite a bit longer than booster.
Blowing up the test site isn't much better. They have two towers, but only one test site. The test site will be cheaper and easier to fix than a tower, but it might actually set them back more because of it being the only one.
Nah, take the whole damned complex, next time.
Scott, thank you for your analysis and for pulling all of the views together that really shows the sequence of events.
I remember when people were saying this thing was going to beat SLS to orbit. SLS went to the moon, Starship can't even leave the atmosphere
Here's the thing, there isn't much coverage or transparency around the SLS, so people don't expect much from it. Up until it suddenly went to the moon and back all in one launch
@Mountainkitty There is so much transparency, dude.
@Mountainkitty Like NASA's stuff in Apollo ALWAYS did. Iterative design is a thing, but there are two things about it. The first is that is is more a home garage method than a legitimate engineering design methodology. The second is that as you progress, things are supposed to IMPROVE as you travel forward in the cycle. It's not even so much that SpaceX has had failures in that it has had nothing BUT failures with Starship.
How about that SLS launch cadence?
this is the regression of spacex
too many test and explosion but cannot be better
I used to watch Myth Busters for my explosion fix. Now it's SpaceX 😅
IF only adam savage had this explosives budget...
Starship is slowly turning into the "Skybertruck"
Brilliant, I'm stealing that!
😅😅😅
*love* it!
Nice.
You won this one.
LOL damn. That's good.
We were ready and waiting for your great feedback
We know its exciting when you are wearing your dressing gown ;-)
Elon is getting to be an expert in having stuff blow up in his face !
I bet if they fill the tanks at the same time it would be fine, but the uneven forces placed by the full lox tank ripped the whole thing apart
Watching the stream live, Jack with NSF noted that he usually has his exposure set to automatic, but this time he had not set it to auto. That's why the exposure goes white for a considerable amount of time.
This was a mistake)
And he was very apologetic on stream about it. Jack is a consummate professional and just had the incredibly bad luck to not have the correct setting during the RUD. Poor guy 😢
Yeah he was really bummed about it. He's such a good guy, really.@DebraJean196