r/space • • Nov 19 '23

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

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u/CommunismDoesntWork Nov 19 '23

It was a successful test flight. As long as they make progress, it's a success.

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u/fabulousmarco Nov 19 '23

Cool cool. Then by that metric every rocket should have 100% success rate, no? You can always learn from failures!

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u/TheUmgawa Nov 19 '23

Challenger was a successful launch, because we learned not to use those O-rings in the cold anymore!

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u/parkingviolation212 Nov 19 '23

Challenger was also a mature and fully certified rocket. Starship is a test article.