this post was submitted on 27 Aug 2023
463 points (93.9% liked)

Technology

69298 readers
4166 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots


founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Wildlife officials say SpaceX launch left behind significant damage::undefined

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Pretty sure they actually did successfully do a half thrust test and it was acceptable.

I'm like 80% sure it was at least half.

They had no idea how bad it would fail given that test.

Edit ya there it is, half thrust. https://www.axios.com/2023/04/28/faa-spacex-starship-investigation-explosive-test-flight

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1649800747834392580