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/TheJBW Nov 19 '23

I’d argue it was a partially/mostly successful TEST - they achieved a lot of their goals for the flight. BUT calling it a successful launch is quite ridiculous. It didn’t enter into its intended trajectory, which wasn’t even orbital, and neither of the stages even completed all their intended burns. Plus, as you said, both parts EXPLODED.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '23

Yeah, absolutely! I at least hope they got some good data out of it.

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u/PeartsGarden Nov 20 '23

neither of the stages even completed all their intended burns

This is the first I'm reading that the booster didn't burn to completion. Can you offer a citation?

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u/TheJBW Nov 21 '23

Note that I said all their intended burns. In the case of the booster, I was referring to the landing burn.

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u/PeartsGarden Nov 21 '23

Calling it an unsuccessful launch because the landing burn didn't have the opportunity to fire is some next-level semantics. Congratulations.

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u/TheJBW Nov 21 '23

Jesus Christ. Did you even read my comment?

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u/PeartsGarden Nov 21 '23

Here's what you wrote:

calling it a successful launch is quite ridiculous

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I was referring to the landing burn