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so much more expensive for the tax payer too (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 46 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (26 children)

I'm all for shitting on Musk but this is a very poor comparison. The Starship is very much still being developed and failures are expected. The Falcon 9 rocket is what is currently used to launch LEO satellites into orbit. From wikipedia:

As of 24 May 2025, rockets from the Falcon 9 family have been launched 490 times, with 487 full mission successes, three failures, and one partial failure.

I'd say they're doing pretty damn well, especially since they're doing what nobody else has ever done and the first stage comes back and is reused. Also from wikipedia:

A total of 47 boosters have flown multiple missions, with a record of 28 missions by a booster. SpaceX has also reflown fairing halves more than 300 times, with some being reflown at least twenty times.

Still, fuck Elon.

[–] Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The design for the Saturn V wasn't handed down by the rocket gods. Several of those Saturn V launches were test flights and there were 3 ground tests before them. Starship has been in development for about as long as the Saturn program took to develop and fly 3 different models of rocket.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Still, the whole reusing the same boosters bit is pretty significant.

[–] gens@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

No FEA is also very significant.

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