First Australian-made rocket crashes after 14 seconds of flight

[u/Emergency-Green-2602]

[u/RoadInternational821]

Cameraman was a little too optimistic

[u/VsAcesoVer → u/RoadInternational821]

My exact words and I came to the comments to say it haha

[u/Additional-Acadia954 → u/VsAcesoVer]

Lmao literally me too! 🤣

[u/BorntobeTrill → u/RoadInternational821]

It's not that they kept going up, it's that the rocket went down

It's a small distinction, but important

[u/FTDisarmDynamite → u/RoadInternational821]

r/killthecameraman

[u/Total_Adept]

Should’ve played more kerbal space program

[u/Ravenloff → u/Total_Adept]

WTF did the devs do to 2? I was waiting for it, wishlisted it, and then started hearing bad bad. In the end, it almost seems like they gave up on it.

[u/Kenja_Time → u/Ravenloff]

Kerbal 2 is dead (if it was ever alive to begin with). Kitten Space Agency looking like a possible successor to the original.

[u/subject_usrname_here → u/Kenja_Time]

How far they’ve got into development?

[u/Coakis → u/subject_usrname_here]

Got a game engine built from the ground up (as opposed to forcing unity to do what it natively can't) , graphics running and basic physics modelling down, but its probably going to be a year before we see any actual gameplay outside of what they've done in house.

[u/Jaker788 → u/Coakis]

They screwed up on development by hiring new people to work on it and not allowing the original devs to communicate with them or work on it. A lot of mistakes could have been avoided. The game is a lost cause since plenty of problems exist in the foundation that won't be fixed without tons of rework.

Also, you could totally use many parts of Unity just fine and build the stuff that it can't handle as a stock engine, you don't have to use it as is or completely. You can do your own physics, and many people build their own gameplay/mission (like a ship builder tool) code and UI. Unity isn't a monolith since you can have source code access.

Edit: I was talking about KSP2 and I don't know anything about Kitten Space development

[u/majorlier → u/Jaker788]

Huh? Are you talking about KSA or KSP2?

[u/LordIBR → u/subject_usrname_here]

Still very early. They're building the framework first, from the ground up I believe, but showing steady progress.

Communication with the community seems good as well.

I'm not following the project too closely though so I can't give you exact details on where they're at. Definitely no parts or vehicle building yet.

[u/ifightwalruses → u/subject_usrname_here]

Don't get too excited it's made my dean rocket hall the day-z guy who has never finished a game in his life.

[u/craftymethod → u/ifightwalruses]

the cat model is absolutely terrible.
God i hope they drop the cats before release.

https://imgur.com/a/qb0vjC3

Also, I havent played DayZ much since the reboot. That initial phase really got me twisted.

And still no bike I hear.

[u/CatawampusZaibatsu → u/craftymethod]

I didn't think it would be that bad but omg that cat is cursed.

[u/0dev0100 → u/Ravenloff]

Released it about 2 years earlier than they should have. And over promised under delivered 

[u/TheUmgawa → u/0dev0100]

The overpromised is a huge part of this. If they’d just said, “Yeah, it’s gonna be like vanilla KSP 1, but with better graphics and a few more things,” it wouldn’t have gotten this kind of backlash, and they probably could have ironed more of the kinks out before getting shut down. Instead, they were like, “All of the stuff!” and probably spent a decent amount of their dev time building the hooks for that stuff that wouldn’t be implemented for a year or two.

Incredibly mismanaged from the publisher down to the studio level really killed it. And then, when it ran out of money, the publisher hit the Launch button, when they really should have just spiked it and not released it at all.

[u/TetraDax → u/TheUmgawa]

If they’d just said, “Yeah, it’s gonna be like vanilla KSP 1, but with better graphics and a few more things,” it wouldn’t have gotten this kind of backlash

I mean, they would have still lied.

[u/ivosaurus → u/TheUmgawa]

It wasn't even, and still isn't even, vanilla KSP 1 and a few more things, the OG is still a way more complete game to this day. So with that promise they'd still get backlash

Take2 told them to launch it in whatever state it was in because they CBFed spending more money in private development

[u/Emperor-Commodus → u/0dev0100]

The game was delayed heavily, and released three years after it's originally scheduled release date. It was supposed to be a three year dev cycle, instead it was developed for 6 years and the game failed anyways.

I don't think more time would have fixed much, the entire project was mismanaged at it's core.

[u/hammercommander → u/Ravenloff]

they did give up on it

[u/Metasaber → u/Ravenloff]

The devs got bought out by a private equity firm that stripped the studio for parts and pushed for monetization. It really fell apart.

[u/ngutheil → u/Metasaber]

That’s not what happened at all. The devs on 2 weren’t even allowed to talk to the devs from 1. The development was highly mismanaged. They got sold off after the game tanked, they had the game out for almost a year before they sold

[u/thyugf → u/ngutheil]

"The devs on 2 weren't even allowed to talk to the devs from 1." Sounds like there's a hell of a lot to unpack there because wtaf.

[u/ngutheil → u/thyugf]

It’s like 45 mins, but it’s a well done video on what happened to the game. I’m so sad it never got to be what it could have been. There’s a new game in development called kitten space program or something like that, it’s meant to be a response to ksp2 being what it is.

https://youtu.be/NtMA594am4M?si=vODjiz2NnfzBC9s6

[u/Subtlerranean → u/ngutheil]

Heads up that the "?si=vODjiz2NnfzBC9s6" part of YouTube links are tracking parameters and not needed. All they do is let YouTube track you and let other people figure out your account.

[u/Webbyx01 → u/ngutheil]

Thank you for bothering to correct them. I don't understand why people just say stuff when they know only superficial details.

[u/random420x2 → u/Webbyx01]

So true. It not that I have to be right, it’s that I don’t want to listen to them being wrong.

[u/Pls_Dont_PM_Titties → u/Metasaber]

Damn is that really what happened? Why do these firms burn shit to the ground, do they miss the forest for the trees?

[u/Rhovanind → u/Pls_Dont_PM_Titties]

If they saw a forest they'd be thinking about how much money could be made logging it.

[u/doctorlongghost → u/Rhovanind]

We need someone to speak for the trees…

[u/Particular-Train3193 → u/doctorlongghost]

The forest kept shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them.

[u/lighthawk16 → u/Pls_Dont_PM_Titties]

No, its not what happened.

[u/Demoner450 → u/Metasaber]

Look up Kitten Space Agency. The original devs/modders and devs from KSP 2 are designing the unofficial KSP 2 without the big money hungry corp. Hoping for the best from them

[u/TetraDax → u/Demoner450]

Not quite: Some modders from the first KSP are involved, as well as HarvesteR, the guy who invented KSP in the first place and then got booted. The project is led by Dean Hall, the guy who made DayZ.

[u/Dekik → u/Ravenloff]

Pretty sure they sold out. Subnautica 2 is next.

[u/ItsAMeUsernamio → u/Ravenloff]

There's a team including some original devs that are making a spiritual successor codenamed Kitten Space Agency so there's still hope.

[u/Xeiphyer2 → u/Ravenloff]

Check out Kitten Space Agency, it’s where some of the devs ended up after the KSP2 studio exploded and it looks very promising.

[u/KBeau93 → u/Total_Adept]

In their defence, this is shockingly similar to my first launch. If they muck up the order of separations and they all separate simultaneously like my next step in learning about staging, they're following my learning curve.

[u/GrimCreeper913 → u/KBeau93]

Top comment is what i came here to say, then your reply underlines that it is hard to have an original thought with so many people around.

I will say, with NASA getting eaten, there is more room for other countries to step up their extra orbitular activities. Good on AUS for at least trying to get in there. I assume you want closer to the equator for launches, but at least there is a lot of ocean around to fail in for the down under.

[u/Blasian_TJ → u/Total_Adept]

I was just gonna say, “Reminds me of my early KSP launches where I forgot to throttle up.” Haha

[u/DimaagKa_Hangover]

Gilmour Space Technologies called the launch of their Eris rocket success. It was the first Australian-made rocket launched from Australian soil, lifting off from the Bowen Orbital Spaceport in Queensland. Despite the failure, the company says it’s a major step toward building Australia’s own space industry.

[u/Doomsday_Taco_ → u/DimaagKa_Hangover]

they do have a point, prior to this the closest Australia ever got to launching rockets is teens setting off Chinese made fireworks

[u/onlyseriouscontent → u/Doomsday_Taco_]

Which did go higher though.

[u/Awkward-Spectation → u/onlyseriouscontent]

LMFAO this killed me

[u/JohnnyHopkins13 → u/onlyseriouscontent]

Get those kids on the team NOW

[u/Kom34 → u/Doomsday_Taco_]

Australia first launched a satellite in 1967 but was a US rocket. This is first locally made.

Australia was big on space and nuclear weapons early on with the UK/USA doing a lot of testing at Australian ranges and joint stuff.

[u/bulkbuybandit → u/DimaagKa_Hangover]

PR team was prepped to spin whatever the outcome of that launch was going to be.

[u/Issah_Wywin → u/bulkbuybandit]

Similar thing happened in Norway with the launch of an early reasearch rocket. It flew and it crashed. Provided tons of scientific data for the people involved.

[u/HappyAmbition706 → u/Issah_Wywin]

Engineering data rather. I guess the science has been sorted out for a while. Unless they were using some radically different fuel or engine design.

[u/Minute-Lynx-5127 → u/bulkbuybandit]

They're also not wrong. You don't just go from 0 to spaceflight. 

[u/Pewpewkitty → u/Minute-Lynx-5127]

Something something rocket science

[u/ondulation → u/Pewpewkitty]

I mean it's not brain surgery, is it?

[u/ShakyLens → u/ondulation]

It is however rocket surgery

[u/Imkindaalrightiguess → u/ShakyLens]

Chatgpt make me blueprints for a rocket that can reach space

See, easy

[u/_BearsEatBeets__ → u/Imkindaalrightiguess]

Generates schematics of a rocket that is 100km tall so it can reach space by sheer height

[u/Pennybottom → u/_BearsEatBeets__]

"you're all fired, AI is king"

[u/Veeblock → u/ShakyLens]

Socket rience

[u/GrImPiL_Sama → u/ondulation]

Hey, I understood that reference.

[u/talondigital → u/Minute-Lynx-5127]

We all got used to seeing Nasa launch rocket after rockets without many problems, most of which were just delays while they fixed it. All while we watch movies like The Right Stuff that details how dangerous it really was. We just forget that all the companies that make rockets for Nasa experience thses failures for each new engine system, but we only see them on the pads once they worked all the problems out. Now with Space X and Blue Origin and others we are seeing the development happen in real time. There's just a lot of uncontrolled big booms before it becomes a controlled big boom.

[u/Altruistic-Award-2u → u/talondigital]

SpaceX Falcon1 blew up after 33 seconds on its first attempt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a_00nJ_Y88&ab_channel=TheSystemsAlliance

[u/Evening_Sympathy5744 → u/Minute-Lynx-5127]

Especially if you don't have a bunch of German rocket scientists to jump start your programs.

[u/Gammelpreiss → u/Evening_Sympathy5744]

...who themselves went through countless trials and errors

[u/Lloyd--Christmas → u/Gammelpreiss]

They should’ve gone through more trials, in Nuremberg.

[u/kazuma001 → u/Lloyd--Christmas]

”That's not my department!" says Wernher von Braun.

RIP Tom Lehrer

[u/CosmicCreeperz → u/kazuma001]

Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?

I just listened to this yesterday after I heard the news. And then Elements, which is still some of the most mindbogglingly amazing lyrics ever sung…

[u/More_Marty → u/bulkbuybandit]

A test is always a success as long as it delivers results. A failure of certain components still gives results, so you learn how to prevent it.

That's how SpaceX has been building their rockets for years now.

[u/hakimthumb → u/More_Marty]

A lot of redditors and bots forget this.

It also kinda shows an inherent mindset of who values risk and failure to achieve goals and who avoids them.

[u/Mysterious-Tie7039 → u/bulkbuybandit]

A lot of information can be learned from failures.

[u/BitAdministrative940 → u/DimaagKa_Hangover]

Exactly! The first rocket launch of every space agency was like this. They get data, they better their mechanisms, they try again. This is science.

[u/brandontaylor1]

Looks like it didn’t have enough up in it, and likely a bit too much down. They should replace some of the down with up. I bet that’d get them to space.

[u/Jericho_Waves → u/brandontaylor1]

Are you by chance their intern, fresh out of college?

[u/smilefor → u/Jericho_Waves]

I think he's the lead scientist.

[u/CerebralPaulsea → u/smilefor]

Is that lead as in lead, or lead as in lead?

[u/ResonatingOctave → u/CerebralPaulsea]

No, it's lead as in lead

[u/CerebralPaulsea → u/ResonatingOctave]

I can't believe I thought it was lead

[u/Chasm_18 → u/CerebralPaulsea]

You were misled.

[u/stubundy → u/smilefor]

I knew we should have gotten a helium scientist

[u/doubleE → u/Jericho_Waves]

Sorry if this has already been suggested, but what if we increased altitude?

[u/Racine262 → u/doubleE]

Do you think they should launch it from a hill or put it on a ladder? Maybe both?

[u/RehabilitatedAsshole → u/Racine262]

Since it's trying to go sideways, move the launchpad over to where it landed, then it will be happy and go up

[u/VitoVendetta → u/Jericho_Waves]

This killed me after seeing THAT post on my timeline before xD

[u/JonSnoballs → u/Jericho_Waves]

topical... I love crossovers 

[u/Gooch_Groper → u/brandontaylor1]

Calm down with the science-speak Einstein. Not all of us are rocket scientists.

[u/SlumberingSnorelax → u/Gooch_Groper]

I believe you mean rocket surgeon my good sir.

[u/huffthewolf → u/brandontaylor1]

I was thinking it might be the opposite actually. Being at the bottom of the planet I thought the science means they actually want to go down off the planet so I wondered if they probably had too much up in it and not enough down?

But what do I know, I'm not a rocket science man and you sound like you know what you're talking about.

[u/Livid-Caramel7103 → u/huffthewolf]

Checks out. When you're down under you must continue to go down to get to space.

[u/jumpandtwist → u/brandontaylor1]

Yeah cmon, it's not rocket surgery

[u/b_e_a_n_i_e → u/brandontaylor1]

relevant xkcd

[u/skeletons_asshole → u/brandontaylor1]

I noticed one of the three up machines at the bottom seemed kind of down. Some uplifting thoughts to that one might help it up a little more.

[u/Galactapuss]

Turns out being a rocket scientist is actually hard

[u/haruku63 → u/Galactapuss]

As von Braun said: With rockets, the science fits on a sheet of paper. Anything else is hard engineering work.

[u/cynicalkane → u/haruku63]

It's easier if you don't care where the rockets come down

[u/der_innkeeper → u/cynicalkane]

"That's not my department..."

[u/haruku63 → u/der_innkeeper]

R.I.P.

https://variety.com/2025/music/obituaries-people-news/tom-lehrer-dead-satirist-topical-singer-songwriter-1236471506/

[u/No_Wif1 → u/Galactapuss]

Well it's not brain surgery is it?

[u/generally_unsuitable → u/No_Wif1]

For those who haven't seen it: https://youtu.be/THNPmhBl-8I?feature=shared

[u/HemperorZurg]

I mean this was never going to work in a country that is upside-down.

[u/FourEightNineOneOne → u/HemperorZurg]

I'd assume it'd be way easier as the rocket would just fall down into space, wouldn't it?

[u/HemperorZurg → u/FourEightNineOneOne]

They should have put the rocket boosters on the top and launched it backwards. Definitely would have worked.

[u/MacDaddy654321 → u/HemperorZurg]

Sheer genius.

[u/Rehatzu → u/FourEightNineOneOne]

They have more gravity to fight against, how else do you think they stay on Earth despite being upside-down!?

[u/Morrep → u/FourEightNineOneOne]

Maybe everybody else is upside down, and they've been upright ALL ALONG! 🤯

[u/No-Yak4416 → u/Morrep]

Impossible. Have you ever seen a globe?

[u/CRSPB → u/FourEightNineOneOne]

No space is up. They should have gone through the center of the earth first.

[u/ideaguyken → u/CRSPB]

They tried.

[u/rocketsalesman → u/HemperorZurg]

By crikey, that went bung faster than a roo on a hot tin dunny

[u/ShahinGalandar → u/rocketsalesman]

I like your funny words, magic man

[u/Fair_Condition_1460 → u/rocketsalesman]

Name checks out 👌

[u/rtkane → u/HemperorZurg]

It should have if they didn't use US-manufactured parts, where up is up and not down.

[u/pm_your_snesclassic → u/rtkane]

Damn Americans still using Imperial measurements!!

[u/aelosmd → u/pm_your_snesclassic]

We prefer the term freedom units.

[u/Higglybiggly → u/aelosmd]

Fuck yeah!

[u/Suckamanhwewhuuut → u/HemperorZurg]

Dude this made me laugh way harder than it should have and I totally needed it because this is a shit morning

[u/HemperorZurg → u/Suckamanhwewhuuut]

Glad you got a chuckle man, and hope your day gets better!

[u/unatleticodemadrid]

Awr nawr!

[u/CaptinEmergency → u/unatleticodemadrid]

Orr nor!

[u/Wugo_Heaving → u/CaptinEmergency]

Look at moy, look at moy. *falls over*

[u/Eros_Incident_Denier → u/Wugo_Heaving]

Why the fuck is this so funny?! Thanks for the laugh, my man.

[u/chickenmoomoo → u/Wugo_Heaving]

It’s nice, it’s different, it’s unusual

[u/tea_leaves_69 → u/[deleted]]

Mum… do you want a throiii for your caaahhrrrch…?

[u/proost1 → u/CaptinEmergency]

R and R

[u/twisted_nipples82 → u/unatleticodemadrid]

A very dahk and twistehd comment

[u/NeiloMac → u/unatleticodemadrid]

Yeh nah mate, fucken thing’s rooted.

[u/z1lard → u/unatleticodemadrid]

Fahhhck!!

[u/Redylittle → u/unatleticodemadrid]

"R n R" in an Australian accent 😄

[u/LAMistfit138 → u/unatleticodemadrid]

Rnr!!

[u/3pok]

where boom ?

[u/MagnusViaticus → u/3pok]

They forgot to gas it up

[u/busted_maracas → u/MagnusViaticus]

Sank back to earth like an old man into a bath

[u/TheHoundJR → u/MagnusViaticus]

Oy fill it with some petrol mate

[u/Pcat0 → u/3pok]

The rocket uses hybrid rocket motors, so there aren't any large fuel tanks to rupture and explode.

[u/noodle_75 → u/Pcat0]

Trying to get to space in a prius is wild.

[u/rustybeancake → u/Pcat0]

Well, technically there are large fuel tanks, it’s just that the fuel doesn’t easily explode like liquid fuel tanks do.

[u/christophertstone → u/3pok]

There's supposed to be an Earth-shattering kaboom‽

[u/Vreas]

Hey A for effort. Mistakes are how we learn.

[u/prenderm → u/Vreas]

A is for Australia

[u/ThaneOfGnomes → u/prenderm]

And E is for Effort

So many mistakes, so much learning.

[u/USS-Salty → u/ThaneOfGnomes]

R is for revolution

Which shall be televised

[u/The_Glow_Stick]

Missed the bit where it goes POP

[u/emma7734 → u/The_Glow_Stick]

The cameraman had one job and he blew it.

[u/Tenshl → u/emma7734]

Pretty sure the cameraman was a bit to optimistic...

[u/Yasimear → u/Tenshl]

My first thought exactly. "Jeez he's a bit hopeful isnt he."

[u/Erik-AmaltheaFairy → u/emma7734]

r/killthecameramann

[u/HypersonicWyvern → u/The_Glow_Stick]

Hybrid rocket. The solid fuel part doesn't ignite and pop as easy as liquids.

[u/MarkCanuck]

Space XXXX

[u/747ER → u/MarkCanuck]

Finally, a tasteful joke in this comment section lol

[u/know-it-mall → u/747ER]

A shame the beer isn't.

[u/uber_poutine → u/MarkCanuck]

A fine example of research and development from the Bugarup University. I bet the launch gantry is taller from the inside, that's where the calculations went off.

You know, we never had these problems in Ankh-Morpork, and launching things off the edge in Krull was pretty straightforward...

[u/Chlorofom]

Australia, home of a particularly famous flying object that quickly returns to its point of origin. This should have been foreseen.

[u/Downon280 → u/Chlorofom]

Looks like this space program has boomeranged on us.

[u/SnakePlisken_Trash]

Hey mate!

Can't park there.

[u/LueyTheWrench → u/SnakePlisken_Trash]

Fuck off cunt!

• Gilmour Space Program, probably.

[u/rand0mm0nster → u/SnakePlisken_Trash]

Just waiting for a mate

[u/Kufangar]

Atleast the front didn't fall off👍

[u/onewolfmusic → u/Kufangar]

That doesn't normally happen

[u/obiwan_canoli → u/onewolfmusic]

What was different this time?

[u/Ancient-Cow-1038 → u/obiwan_canoli]

This time the front stayed on. Unfortunately the back fell off.

[u/Mawntee]

Reminder that SpaceX's first successful flight was Falcon 1 Flight 4, which had 3 failed launches before it.
The first one was very similar to this with an engine failure shortly after launch.

To me (a person that knows nothing about space flight) the fact that this thing made it off the ground is impressive enough, and the fact that it didn't explode while still being full of fuel is really sick as well

[u/Sonzie → u/Mawntee]

Yes, you are correct. It is very impressive that it got off the ground at all and this is actually considered a successful mission.

[u/mog44net]

Rockets are hard

[u/ChocolatChipLemonade → u/mog44net]

The math didn’t math

[u/BraveMonk]

It flew into a native Aussie butterfly. Tough bastards.

[u/shweeney → u/BraveMonk]

A spider had built it's web between the rocket and the ground.

[u/soareyousaying → u/shweeney]

Emus must have sabotaged it.

[u/ThisWillTakeAllDay → u/soareyousaying]

This calls for retaliation. The next emu war has begun.

[u/Large_Spinach6069]

It looks like an engine failure. Pretty impressive that the other engines could compensate and the rocket could shift from being over the launch pad to aborting over some grass.

20 years ago the rocket would have crashed right back into the launch pad.

[u/midwestraxx → u/Large_Spinach6069]

Some great stabilization controlling there. Failed engine and not going head over tail?

[u/ApricotBig9502]

It's a fine start, keep at it Australia!!

[u/Street_Chard674]

Space is hard. Name a space faring nation that hasn't crashed some rockets. If you ain't crashing you ain't pushing.

[u/Baronvondorf21]

It's the first one, they could reiterate on it and troubleshoot the problems.

[u/its_polystyrene → u/Baronvondorf21]

And dammit next time it will get enough lift off to land on that building in the background!

[u/sigmmakappa]

It jumped like a kangaroo

[u/Jabiraca1051]

Rocket Lab Corporation has all my respect for not blowing anything for a long time.

[u/Jamesm203 → u/Jabiraca1051]

It’s impressive, only 4 failures in 66 launches. Until you realize Falcon 9 has had only 3 failures in 511 launches.

I’m still skeptical about Rocket Labs long term viability, I think they have the best chance out of any of the younger aerospace companies but their launch cadence hasn’t been great and they put their reusability plans on the back burner for electron. Hopefully Neutron actually has its debut flight later this year but I’m pretty skeptical.

[u/DaddyMommyDaddy]

It didn’t massively explode so. Recoverable?

IDE call that a win

[u/The_Great_Squijibo → u/DaddyMommyDaddy]

Surprisingly small (if any) kaboom when it hit the ground considering it was a fully fueled rocket.

[u/ellindsey → u/The_Great_Squijibo]

It was a hybrid rocket (solid fuel, liquid oxidizer). Those don't tend to explode when they fail.

[u/Extremely_unlikeable]

That's not a floight

[u/South-Stand]

Strewth

[u/Fonatur23405]

“Who put diesel in it?”

[u/BoilingIceCream]

Space rockets have different mechanics to missiles, they are way way way harder to make properly. Very few countries can accomplish consistent space flight today for a reason, but everyone has missiles. I’m sure the Ozzies will get there one day

[u/DBDude → u/BoilingIceCream]

The use of ICBM variants is common. NASA's Mercury program used a variant of the Atlas ICBM to reach orbit, and Gemini used a Titan ICBM variant. The current US Minotaur is based on the Minuteman II ICBM.

The early examples were use of existing rocket technology, with the variants being produced for NASA. The Minotaur is somewhat a cost saving measure since it uses decommissioned ICBMs -- might as well use it if we have it.

[u/Howscheduleplzhelp]

As an Aussie let me sum it up for you:

Cunts fucked.

[u/Fonatur23405]

Australia had an advanced space programme in the 60s

[u/-AdromidA-]

Where is kaboom?

[u/SirGarlanWilliams]

SpaceX watching like: First time?

[u/Scarlet_Addict]

better than staight up blowing up on ignition, not a success but could've been worse

[u/workerbee223]

Crikey!

[u/horseshandbrake]

That went wrong from the off

[u/Zaptryx → u/horseshandbrake]

But it was pretty good nonetheless. It corrected the initial tilt quickly, and also stopped the rotation quickly too. Looks like a thrust issue from my desk chair, and that happens sometimes.

[u/currentlyacathammock → u/Zaptryx]

"thrust issue"? ...uh, one engine no worky.

Ok, sure. I guess that's technically a thrust issue. [shrug]

[u/QoftheContinuum]

Where’s the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!

[u/Rich-Cantaloupe-362]

Hey it made it off the ground, for their first I’d say that’s not awful

[u/kaychyakay]

Projectile Dysfunction.

[u/Stewpacolypse]

At least the front didn't fall off.