SpaceX launches Starship on first orbital test flight
At what environmental cost? "Spacecraft is being landed in the sea with no plan to recover and recycle it...exploded in a huge fireball once it had hit the water" #PlanetaryBoundaries www.independent.co.uk/tech/spacex-...
Charlotte Smith39It is genuinely staggering to me that, in 2026, the ocean is still treated like a trash can
M36The worst part is that the news media is characterizing it as a "successful" launch! 🙄 In what universe a rocket that misses its landing spot, and explodes when landing on water is a successful launch? At minimum they got their math wrong. www.nbcnews.com/now/video/sp...
Joh Fonte30Who gives Musk the right to destroy our environment
bowprow.bsky.social20The Biden Admin was holding Space-X responsible for environmental catastrophes. Not the Trump Admin! “More pollution” is the motto of the current EPA. Let’s vote the Sycophant Repubs out of office in November! At least we can obtain 1 branch of gov that will hold Trump accountable.
Michelle19Like there isn't already enough JUNK in our oceans??? If you drop it - PICK IT UP! Lesson from kindergarten.
Doe Bee14Skum is an eco-criminal who ought to be locked up and his fucking trillions confiscated to repair the damage he's done to the planet via his disgusting companies
SpaceX just launched the 14th Starship test flight, and it's now successfully in orbit for the first time. This is an amazing achievement, and I absolutely detest how Musk has ruined this sort of thing both for me and for humanity.
Kirk Rudell60Um, they’ve sent five to Mars already, right?
technicallywithtom.bsky.social35For me it’s not Musk who ruins it (even though yes, he’s a total turd), it’s the people who’re superfans of him who absolutely will not let the achievements of the SpaceX engineers be celebrated without attributing all the credit to Musk, a guy who has literally nothing to do with their successes.
Jay Reding21Very much the same. At least Von Braun was a *former* Nazi when Saturn V launched. This is like if Von Braun was still running slave labor on the side during Apollo. It's an amazing technological achievement from a company led by an absolute monster.
Scott Armitage16I used to watch every static test fire, every launch, every landing attempt when F9 was finding its wings. Now your post is the only thing I’ve seen about Starship in months, and I don’t plan to learn more about it. 😕
Justin Erickson14I want to celebrate the achievement of the engineers!
TWuG, The Original6Yep. Ditto the first successful new US car company in 50+ years and it's electric.
The Spaceshipper 🚀97That's it. I used to be really excited about SpaceX's successes. Now I think about the photos of children dying of malnutrition because of Musk (there are plenty of other issues, like the fact that Musk is meddling in the domestic politics of many countries, but the deaths of children are enough).
Rude Law Dog87how does this have 500 likes? lol 14 attempts in, they didn't blow up. This is a non-viable platform, the unit economics of Starship are pure fantasy
Derek Newsome50It’s honestly not even that amazing of an achievement. It took Starship 14 flights to accomplish the bare minimum expected of a launch vehicle, and even then it’s not exactly been a smooth flight.
Vineyard Dawg10100% agree. The only good thing Elon ever did was use all that money to start a space company, hire very smart people to make it work, and get out of their way and just be the loud PR guy. So of course he has to fuck up the vibes around it now.
Jeff Bachtel3Yes, yes, Starship finally made orbit. Still underdelivering on payload capacity compared to initial promises, barely more than a SLS, about 50% more than a Falcon Heavy. I can't think of another rocket program that took *14* flights to make orbit. The Saturn program certainly didn't.
Fiziker3Bluesky likes to pretend that SpaceX’s rockets are failures. It’s actually a big problem that the most successful rocket company with the most reliable rocket ever flown, which the US government is dependent on, is controlled by a Nazi. Ignoring reality isn’t helpful.
From Kolob In Peace2For the Exmormons on here: this is the same thing as when members say that the church is perfect but the people aren't.
Starship splashdown ends in fireball. The usual. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
The Orphan18No oversight, no environmental protection
Ian Betteridge10When are they going to realise that taking a load of fuel into space, which they then have to carry back down again in order to do that lovely vertical landing stuff, is actually a really terrible idea?
Washingtonian9Audience applause, starship blows-up 🔥 ... the narrator announces "the starship has landed" ... 😂
Justin7And the analysis on awful chemicals dumped into the ocean?
Martin6And they just kept applauding?
Polly Curley3Everything Elmo touches turns to shite. Tesla. Twitter. Spacex. He is the Anti-Midas.
Raven Onthill68"burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp."
David Blanchflower BSc61I'm sure one of these decades they'll have a roaring success. I'll probably be dead by then, but you never know. 🔭 🧪
Philip Ball25I'm so bored of this.
Flying Mezerkis23Let's do a Musk-Starship thread (not an expert, just a news-reader with a memory longer than a journalists, ie two weeks). In 2016, when the Starship idea was unveiled, he would have an uncrewed landing on Mars in 2022, and crewed by 2024.
Rob Tracinski12SpaceX seemed to work for a while because they had massive amounts of capital to burn through, so they could blow up a bunch of rockets just to learn things and move faster--or that was the argument. But now it kind of looks like they keep blowing up rockets without learning anything.
Critical Nostalgia10"Our ten-hour mission, to explore strange new worlds." *kaboom* "Our ninety-minute mission."
João Calhau7Any proper governmental institution would probably be facing shut down after so many failures and so much damage to the environment, but we continue, because SpaceX.
Artisan Loaf 🏳️🌈3you do not gotta hand it to em
scenarist / Chris3the X is for explosion
Ricki Cummings 🏳️⚧️2I was in the MSI this weekend and had me a good laugh when the SpaceX-pandering space exhibit mentions that their rockets take off and land safely. Like. They usually do the one, and almost never do the other, and this is supposed to be a scientific exhibit. Let's not make some claims, eh?
LAUNCH! Starship Flight 14 launches from Starbase Pad 2 on its first orbital mission attempt. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gDx...
Dirt12Wish I could enjoy watching a launch again but NASA teaming up with SpaceX fronted by Elon Musk just destroys it for me.
Piñín♾️ ... que de Piñón "ye" sobrín4TERRIFYING that #ElonMusk right now is having to decide whether to put Starship Flight 14 in orbit which would save SpaceX share price for now, but risk losing control of a enormous ballistic missile which could land anywhere on earth 🥶
Franklin Ratliff4@jfoust.bsky.social @lorengrush.bsky.social @ryancaton.co.uk Starship going into orbit without independent self-contained RCS/OMS is delusional, stupid, and dangerous.
Take out all g.o.p. trash in 20262Calling this sh*t "starship" and "starbase" doesn't make it so. space karen can't figure out how to get folks to Mars so he gets to play pretend space explorer. moron.
Andrew1I hope it ends in a disaster. Fvck Elon and Space X.
BayAreaRunSkiGuy1Fuck SpaceX, Musk and the Military Industrial Complex.
The worst part is that the news media is characterizing it as a "successful" launch! 🙄 In what universe a rocket that misses its landing spot, and explodes when landing on water is a successful launch? At minimum they got their math wrong. www.nbcnews.com/now/video/sp...
pvgc.bsky.social38This whole Starship endeavour is evil. Musk chooses to waste billions on a useless vanity project while the world descends into chaos and despair - much of it due to his unbridled support for fascists, Nazis and tyrants. Musk needs to be stopped.
SLEVE MCDICHAEL2It was a test, and this was the planned outcome.
668485922Today Musk successfully blew up another of his rockets. All hail Dear Leader's little buddy.
SpaceX Starship reached orbit and deployed 26 more Starlink v3 satellites this morning. They now want to circle the Earth several times and land off the coast of Chile. Each trip around the planet takes about 90 mins. if I heard that correctly...
