SpaceX Starship Flight 6 Analysis: Was It A Success Or Not?

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[ARWest-bpyb]

Too bad about not catching the booster, but it was pretty awesome to see Starship re-enter and land in daylight. Next flight will be with Starship V2! 🚀👍👍

[myvideos]

When you learn from tests and errors, there's no failure, but progress. SpaceX became the top of the world with this method.

[Italianjedi]

Very nice! Great success!

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[josej]

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[anguscovoflyer]

At least the FAA have stated that there won’t be a mishap investigation

[pentaborane]

The video was a great recap of the mission, good to acknowledge that the booster catch was indeed a failure. It seems more and more failure gets treated as a forbidden word when it shouldn't. It's part of the iterative process.

[Asterra]

Come to think of it, this _is_ the very first time that SpaceX's "primary goals" for a Starship test flight haven't been fully met. This would be the best time for naysayers to label a Starship IFT as a failure. But on the other hand, they still got to test booster's abort procedure, which a "faster and harder booster catch" wouldn't have delivered. Technically not a full success but still got to test something that needed to be tested eventually.

[antiquatedflatulence]

In a sense, failure to catch the booster was a success because it proved that EVERYTHING HAS TO BE JUST RIGHT in order to perform a catch.

[panzrok]

4:53 Those wrinkles on the side of the hull where they removed the tiles worry me a bit. I got so hot that the steel got soft. 5:20 Are you sure that they removed tiles at the flaps?

[NismoXero]

Catch was aborted because they lost comms with the tower. Booster was fine. It was a mechazilla problem.

[geanozz]

Twice the mighty Saturn, still can't make it to the moon...

[onegemini]

Why does everyone try to put it as black or white. It was a success and a failure. They failed to complete all their goals. but they successfully tested and achieved other goals that will help the engineers improve future flights. It is also a success in that they did not destroy the tower trying to catch the booster when they did not feel it would be safe to do so. Which is just as important to test even if these are main production and they have hundreds or thousands of successful catches. It is always important to know they can waive it off if something did look wrong.

Did they fail to achieve a second catch? YES. Does that make this flight a complete failure? NO.

[thelittleguy-ihnv]

Sounds like an opinion from someone who's never worked on or with any type of space craft!

[harrywilliam]

No problem starship perfectly landing in water and booster mechazilla all are engineering marvel. Catch already happens they got the recipe already. Now they are perfecting it. Seriously Elon decision for changing material stainless steel is a game changer. Think about carbon fiber they will go bankrupt. Carbon fiber is headache for money and people.Elon and spacex correct about stainless steel easy for rapid design change, low cost make them move faster. Their own raptor engine is a main ingredients for spacex to achieve this sucess.

[ScotSteel]

They could pretty easily get such footage of the reentry if they didn't crash it into the ocean and never recover it. What if they used black boxes like we do on airplanes? Sucks that they are more than $5, 000, 000, 000 in and have reused exactly 0 upper stages from these 6 launches. Good thing Starship isn't marketed as reusable, right? Lol.