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2OEH8eoCRo0yesterday at 5:58 PM2 repliesview on HN

They've blown up 11 Starships without any of them making it to orbit. Artemis I flew around the moon and came back already.

And don't compare costs because Starship does not and may never work so I dont care how much cheaper it is. If we are comparing fictional rockets I have a $1 rocket that can fly to Jupiter.


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bhoustonyesterday at 6:00 PM

> They've blown up 11 Starships without any of them making it to orbit.

They purposely were not trying for orbit from my understanding. The last one did orbit the earth at suborbital heights and release satellites. It did seem to do what they wanted it to do, it wasn't a failure.

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ThrowawayTestryesterday at 6:09 PM

This is why NASA can never adopt the SpaceX philosophy. People don't understand the concept of test fight.