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Starship Flight 12 first launch attempt be like (thelemmy.club)
submitted 3 months ago by [M] to c/spaceflightmemes@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 4 points 3 months ago (4 children)

If I'm not mistaken Friday is their last authorized launch date(correct me if wrong) so there are 3 possible conclusions :

  1. Rocket explodes doing major pr damage as they are pushing their ipo.

  2. Rocket doesn't launch and is delayed until after ipo, not good for Elon but maybe salvagable.

  3. Launch is successful and everything goes great. This is what Elon is hoping for but unlikely with this many retires required.

Reading their ipo release they want to claim it's based on Ai but they want to run their Ai from space(for unknown reasons). To do so they need a delivery method which would be the starship. If it's not reliable on 1 flight would you trust it to launch your 100 billion dollar Ai data center to space?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Early falcons had similar issues. I fully expect the starship to work since they are not reinventing the wheel, but trying to get the with old technology.

    Just might need some more tries.

    Also, the business case for putting data centers in space is dubious at best. But there are very good reasons star ship may still be worth the effort.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Isn't the IPO sometime in June? Could they not get get a new launch license for tue-fri next week? Usually it seems they are able to get FAA approval.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    I know the reports just came out. On their website their next launch is first week of June on a falcon. I don't know how fast they can reschedule, maybe someone else can chime in with that info...

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    The retries were about a stuck pin in the ground support equipment.

    There's also definitely a range between "blows up" and "100% success".

    And they won't be flying customer payloads soon, just internal ones for refuelling experiments and their Starlink and Starlink based "data center" satellites.

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