alt Hacker News4M viewers. comparable to top politics events.
ship looks to be lost. this was the main part, so it's almost complete failure.
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brian-armstrong • last Thursday at 11:53 PM
You're assuming the viewer count is accurate? That seems rather naive.
inglor_cz • last Thursday at 11:18 PM
Let us say 2/3rds of a failure.
SpaceX has a way of making the nearly impossible expected. We have forgotten quite quickly that booster catch is still a very experimental feature. Return to base on this flight wasn't routine yet.
throw5959 • last Thursday at 10:59 PM
Almost a complete failure except for second ever caught first stage...
BTW they first tested a redesigned version of Starship today.
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these tests are designed to fail — the data collected now will ensure they don't blow up with actual people on them. test seems like a success to me