Booster lost control and terminated itself?
It seems unlikely that they succeed at reentry on the first try–maybe 25% chance? That’s the real revolutionary breakthrough that they’re chasing, although Starship with booster reuse is still a big deal and probably good enough for Artemis if they’re willing to throw enough second stages at it.
Good progress. Idk exactly what the criteria is for a mishap investigation but maybe it won’t be a holdup for the next flight.
- Serious injury or fatality
- Malfunction of a safety-critical system
- Failure of a safety organization, safety operations or safety procedures
- High risk of causing a serious or fatal injury to any space flight participant, crew, government astronaut, or member of the public
- Substantial damage to property not associated with the activity
- Unplanned substantial damage to property associated with the activity
- Unplanned permanent loss of the vehicle
- Impact of hazardous debris outside of defined areas
- Failure to complete a launch or reentry as planned
Not sure what this means in practice though. F9 loses boosters to failed landings sometimes. Not sure if those are mishaps that don’t ground the fleet or whether they aren’t mishaps for some reason.
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This rotation seems bad…
I feel like they’re underexploiting the marketing angle that they’re using Starlink internet to livestream from a reentering spacecraft.
Lord knows they have plenty of them already hanging out in Texas.
That footage of the plasma during reentry was pretty darn incredible.
Good progress, my guess is some kind of stuck thruster caused a loss of attitude control.
Don’t think either “mishap” should take 4 months to launch again.
Never gets old watching live hd footage of something in space.
Anyone get a good look at the Northern Lights? It was overcast at my location in Ohio.
I took a walk but I only saw city lights, mountains, and clouds. Well, also assholes racing around the Capitol. Maybe try again tonight.
Would recommend using your phone’s camera and the long exposure setting (Nightsight). IMO, it just looked like some clouds to the naked eye but the photo made it pop a lot more. I have a ton of light pollution though 
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Q1 2024 tonnage to space. SpaceX’s largest US competitor has launched 0.30% as much mass, about 2 Starlink satellites’ worth.
https://x.com/theplanetaryguy/status/1796187103237136719?s=46&t=hUTQWHj9NQWf8Y8RgMv1TA
this deep field photo is pissing me off more than most… there’s just SO much out there 
like that whole field is just one tiny point in the night sky, and you can zoom all the way in and it’s still so many entire fucking galaxies. and there’s amazing, incomprehensible things going on in every single one of them.
like seriously fuck space. it’s like somebody telling you they have the world’s biggest secret and they never end up telling you.
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It’s pretty f***ing cool huh?
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being closer to the size of the observable universe than the smallest thing we can measure is… man i don’t even know. 
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also cool is censoring f**ing. i used to prefer just the u (fcking) but will accept that the extra stars accentuate it better.
edit: weird that it formats weird
A single asterisk at the beginning and end of a string italicizes it. Double asterisks at beginning and end give you bold text. If you want asterisks you can use backslash as an escape: \* results in * without changing the text style. This might be clearer if you use the quote function on this post to see what I mean.
Anyway, maybe it helps if you think of the universe as a single wave function. Then there’s no real separation between you and fundamental particles or galaxies. The difference in scale becomes meaningless. At least until you need to do something useful.
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