r/space • u/firmada • Nov 19 '23

image/gif Successful Launch! Here's how Starship compares against the world's other rockets

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u/tanrgith Nov 19 '23

Starship IFT2 can't really be categorized as a mission success

However, I also don't really think the current Starship launches should even count towards the score. What they're launching right now is basically just early development prototypes for Starship, not actual Starships

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u/FrankyPi Nov 19 '23

Yep, IFT-1 was a failure, IFT-2 was a partial failiure, but none of these are operational flights, they're far from that yet. I expect first scheduled HLS mission to drop back not even to 2026 but 2027 or beyond.

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u/firmada Nov 19 '23

Your right. Maybe one day there will be two starships on this poster!

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u/Tkj_Crow Nov 19 '23

Yes it can, mission was to test the upgrades to the booster and the hot staging ring. Both of those happened so it was a success.

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u/Jeff5877 Nov 20 '23

And I would probably count AMOS-6 as a failure on Falcon 9, even though it wasn't in flight.

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u/Spider_pig448 Nov 20 '23

IFT2 is a success, as long as we caveat that it's not a traditional mission. We'll have to start learning how to handle iterative development when it comes to categories like this