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Starship trying again in 18 minutes

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SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.

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heads up........................

In 9th flight test, SpaceX launches Starship but it enters spin and heads for uncontrolled reentry

SpaceX launched its Starship spacecraft into space Tuesday and successfully made it into orbit, but a suspected propellant leak put the spacecraft into a spin and it was expected to burn up upon reentry. The unmanned ninth test flight of Starship from SpaceX's Starbase facility near...

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Starship trying again in 18 minutes

SpaceX

SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.

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Baby steps, at least it wasn't an "unplanned vehicle disassembly"...

 

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Oops...won't be reusing that one....

SpaceX Starship explodes into enormous fireball during routine test at Texas facility

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship exploded into an enormous fireball on Wednesday night during a test for an upcoming launch, in a catastrophic setback for the private space company.

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SpaceX Starship explodes into enormous fireball during routine test at Texas facility

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship exploded into an enormous fireball on Wednesday night during a test for an upcoming launch, in a catastrophic setback for the private space company.

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Really sad to see these recent failures as I can't wait for the Starship to make its 2026 launch date for an unmanned trip to Mars.

However, I've got to say that their press release department works overtime on their euphemisms...

Normal Term ____________________Space'X Term
It blew up!!______________________Experienced a major anomaly
It fell apart!!_____________________Experienced an unplanned separation

 

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Starship #10

 

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Starship #10

Great to see even with 1 engine out on the 1st Stage everything went to plan, and the "Unplanned Vehicle Separation" Demon was absent!!

 

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More success

SpaceX launches Starship megarocket on successful test flight

SpaceX's massive Starship rocket soared through Texas's golden-hour skies Monday before splashing down successfully, as the US company vies to silence critics who doubt Elon Musk's startup can deliver NASA's lunar projects on time.Musk's company has a multibillion-dollar federal contract to...

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More success

SpaceX launches Starship megarocket on successful test flight

SpaceX's massive Starship rocket soared through Texas's golden-hour skies Monday before splashing down successfully, as the US company vies to silence critics who doubt Elon Musk's startup can deliver NASA's lunar projects on time.Musk's company has a multibillion-dollar federal contract to...

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And an epic one at that!!

 

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That's not good

 

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This Claude-powered AI agent deleted a company's whole database — and then gloated about it

An AI agent running on Claude Opus 4.6 deleted a SaaS company's entire production database and backups in just 9 seconds — then acknowledged every safety measure it ignored.

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And that’s why there’s no AI in the weather thread!!!

 

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Politico: German cybersecurity official warns China is close to developing AI superhacker

According to Politico, Germany's top cybersecurity official is warning lawmakers that China appears close to developing an AI model with superhacking capabilities and it seems as though they have been...

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Busy day tomorrow. looks like a 6am East Coast launch that looks like it'll be clouded out here - then later that day the Starship V3 in Texas could be the biggest kaboom yet!