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SpaceX Has Finally Figured Out Why Starship Exploded, And The Reason Is Even More Humiliating Than Last Time.
Musk is making a fatal mistake.
Starship is an unmitigated failure — that much we all know by now. But most people still don’t understand the full extent of what a terrible failure Starship actually is. At the time of writing, SpaceX has already spent approximately $10 billion on Starship and hasn’t even managed to reach proper orbit, let alone deliver any payload to space. For comparison, NASA’s Saturn V rocket, which was designed and built using more expensive and less accurate old-school analogue technology, cost roughly $6.4 billion to develop, and the launch costs were approximately $1.4 billion in today’s dollars. In other words, for the same amount of cash that Musk has splashed on creating a rocket that doesn’t work, NASA was able to send astronauts to lunar orbit using technology from the 1960s. And, even more embarrassingly for Musk, this sorry saga is only going to get worse. You see, SpaceX recently announced the cause of Starship’s spectacular failure during its most recent test flight, as well as detailing how they plan to solve this problem, which has exposed just how horribly flawed the Starship concept is.
To fully explain these issues, we need to rewind the clocks back to mid-January when…
