SpaceX Starship 35 Static Fire Anomaly

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There is a bit more description about the SpaceX Starship 35 Static fire anomaly. There was second planned 60 second static fire but it was aborted after a flash. The static fire was stopped after 25 seconds.

The problem might be related to the problems of the seventh and eighth Starship launches.

9 thoughts on “SpaceX Starship 35 Static Fire Anomaly”

  1. It doesn’t matter that they are not perfect. These are prototype test craft. Financially I’m willing to bet it’s far cheaper to fly frequently even if they blow a lot of them up. The reason is they have all this labor and overhead that cost no matter whether they fly or not. Supposedly if the rocket cost $10 million, then way better to constantly fly and improve those than to delay and continue to burn cash. As pointed out you have to fly them sometime and you will not know if works unless you do. I think someone said this before but it appears to me he is doing the same thing as rapid software production that he learned doing software. I don’t think it’s anything to worry about. If three years from now he still has big problems, then…but look how fast he advanced. Right now he’s constantly churning all aspects of the rocket and that makes it more likely to not work “but” it also constricts the time it takes to find out what works and what doesn’t.

    • …especially since Gwynne Shotwell is the show runner – she’s doing an amazing job and probably had it a lot easier with Musk away trying to break the federal government.

  3. THE problem is Musk spends to little time on starbase in person since the election campain

  4. NASA is no longer able to independently evaluate SpaceX for suitability as a vendor. Musk has compromised or neutered the entire government or he most likely would have been shut down already. No spaceship program had this record of failures of a particular model at this point in the process. It’s possible there is a systemic problem with static electricity when so many engines are put together. Maybe it’s vibration. Or something else. There’s no independent review, nor is any possible since NASA’s budget just got slashed and SpaceX’s chief is as much the boss of NASA as the other way around. What do you think would happen if NASA recommended not using Starship, or even waiting until 2030 for manned flights? Watchdogs have been long fired now, and they don’t even have a permanent administrator – though who is really permanent in the Trump administration anyway?

    • What’s the space x failure?? If they wanted to do common things, like sending the rocket into the space, without coming back, as everyone else, and get the booster back on the launch pad… Like no one else… If could be achieved from the 4th flight test I believe. You don’t understand, what a hard entry it is. The moment they will succeed, there will be ready a dozen of rockets ready to fly. Currently, spacex is able to build a new space e station in a few starship launches… But it’s not why they are build the ship for, but for exploration. From my point of view, they are already ahead of everyone else, including nasa, let’s look a few years back, how Russia made fun of usa that they will always rely on Russia for sending astronauts on the space station… Then bam, USA was independent

    • Omg, so many unsubstantiated claims. An emotional Elon hate diatribe without any shred of evidence.

      Some of the claims so stupid that they fall on being impossible: NASA does not have the jurisdiction to close down spacex or any company (the FAA does), NASAs budget will be slashed, but those are future effects, ie impossible that they have an effect now.

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