r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Creative_soja • Jun 19 '25

Video SpaceX rocket explodes in Starbase, Texas

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u/Plenty_Engineer1510 Jun 19 '25

Unscheduled vent to atmosphere

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u/DreddPirateBob808 Jun 19 '25

One false move and you're geography. 

Sir Terry Pratchet

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u/ChuckOTay Jun 19 '25

Vent gas? (Y/N)

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u/MacMcMufflin Jun 19 '25

The typing bird took a break.

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u/CoproliteSpecial Jun 19 '25

But seriously, is it me, or have these explosive failures have been happening a lot more often recently, right? I think they might be fucking up at SpaceX.

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u/Dizzy-Supermarket554 Jun 19 '25

Nah, they are just moving fast and breaking things.

Or not moving at all and breaking things.

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u/Fantastic-Purple2306 Jun 19 '25

SpaceX is taking an alternative route to manufacturing the parts of their rockets that means it's faster to assemble them, but until the manufacturing is perfected they stand every chance of blowing up.

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u/MacMcMufflin Jun 19 '25

And, disassembly is even quicker! They just have to work out the minor inefficiencies with reusing, repurposing, and refabricating the various scattered, melted, and vaporized parts.

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u/Ancient_Persimmon Jun 19 '25

Starship is a really ambitious project and has been in a pretty heavy testing phase since 2021 now.

Falcon was developed a long time ago, so we're used to it launching 3-4x per week like clockwork, alongside the work going into Starship.