Oh my - looks like Muskrat is using the chainsaw on SpaceX

[malaise]

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/may/28/spacex-starship-rocket-launch-9th-test-flight-lost-contact

Another SpaceX Starship prototype broke up over the Indian Ocean on Tuesday, capping the latest bumpy test flight for the rocket central to billionaire Elon Musk’s dream of colonising Mars.

The biggest and most powerful launch vehicle ever built lifted off at 6.36pm local time from the company’s facility near a southern Texas village that earlier this month voted to become a city also named Starbase.

The first signs of trouble emerged when the first-stage Super Heavy booster blew up instead of executing its planned splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico.

A live feed then showed the upper-stage spaceship failing to open its doors to deploy a payload of Starlink satellite “simulators”.

Though the ship flew farther than on its two previous attempts, it sprang leaks and began spinning out of control as it coasted through space on a suborbital path before re-entering the atmosphere out of control and eventually breaking apart.

[Doodley]

1. Tax-payers can pay for another rocket. We'll just add it to the 35 billion we've already paid you.

[Duncanpup]

2. Musk is a parasite as you know.

Just makes me mad malaise the subsidies continue to his companies. And yet there is no cash for grandma to receive meals on wheels.
I’ll now quote MAGA Jesus let those amongst us who are elderly and in need eat space x space debris.

[markodochartaigh]

3. "...it

sprang leaks and began spinning out of control as it coasted through space on a suborbital path before re-entering the atmosphere out of control and eventually breaking apart."

I'm confused here. The article starts out talking about the latest Spacex prototype, but then the article appears to end up talking about the Trump administration.

/s

[sunflowerseed]

16. Thanks!! I needed that!

[Skittles]

4. Gulf of Mexico

[malaise]

12. Yep

The correct name😀

[modrepub]

5. Some One Remind Me Why We Ditched NASA?

[electric_blue68]

7. Not sure. Another stupid drumphf idea? Or Eloon's urging.

Sigh

[tanyev]

15. Because Elon's a GENIUS, remember?

Why, he can do the work of thousands of NASA engineers and do it nearly instantaneously. How does he do it? He just knows in his gut when something “feels” right! There’s no need to do all that math and obsessively check it over and over again. There’s no need for redundant safety systems. A genius, he’ll tell you. Over and over and over.

[malaise]

17. Hit or miss

Muskrat!

[BidenRocks]

8. NASA built nothing

They ran the mission and handed out contracts.

[electric_blue68]

6. Ooopsies!

[Irish_Dem]

9. Just a billionaire's grifting project to steal from the US taxpayer.

He just bills it all to the US who keeps paying him for nothing.

[ToxMarz]

10. I think the government should not provide anymore funding for SpaceX

unless Musk personally accompanies every flight. Any way you slice it, we would be saving a lot of waste, fraud and abuse..

[Dr. T]

11. Terminate all current and future SpaceX contracts

until Muskrat can prove he has a viable product. He can pay for the development work himself.

Hitler would've had Musk executed by now for such failures. Orange Freakenstein better up his game if he's trying to be the second coming of Mini Mustache Adolph.

[tetedur]

13. There would be some explaining to do if this was NASA.

It would not be tolerated. Heads would roll.

[malaise]

14. Just wait for one of his rockets to

kill some people

[Johonny]

18. There isba difference between the Falcon

And Starship. The US government uses Falcon. There are no active users of Starship.

The main costumer of SpaceX is SpaceX. The company is a self licking ice cream cone.

[Hugin]

21. "The company is a self licking ice cream cone."

Not quite how I would have put it, but accurate and acceptable on a public forum.

[k_buddy762]

19. These remain test flights

and data continue to be collected on every singe flight. The telemetry alone is invaluable.

[Hugin]

20. "... out of control and eventually breaking apart."

Signature Smuk

He spent the wrong day at college or he would have learned keeping things from doing this requires very expensive development, testing, and expertise.

He’s not the polymath he takes himself to be. The entitled f**k.