{"id":1204724,"date":"2023-11-20T11:16:23","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T16:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1204724"},"modified":"2023-11-20T11:16:23","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T16:16:23","slug":"sorry-doubters-starship-actually-had-a-remarkably-successful-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1204724","title":{"rendered":"Sorry doubters, Starship actually had a remarkably successful flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/starship-1-800x450-1.jpg\" alt=\"Starship launched on Saturday with all 33 Raptor engines burning nominally.\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/starship-1-scaled.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"1440\" data-width=\"2560\">Enlarge<\/a> <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> Starship launched on Saturday with all 33 Raptor engines burning nominally. (credit: SpaceX)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas\u2014Starship launches are clarifying events. Pretty quickly after liftoff you find out who understands the rocket business, and who are the casual observers bereft of a clue.<\/p>\n<p>Before I had even left the launch viewing area in South Padre Island on Saturday morning headlines started to fill my news feed. The Wall Street Journal led with, \u201cSpaceX second Starship test flight ends in another explosion.\u201d Bloomberg was still more dour, \u201cSpaceX Starship and Super Heavy Booster Launch and Failure.\u201d Perhaps, after consultation with their beat reporters, editors subsequently changed these online headlines. And the stories themselves better reflected the reality. Nevertheless, much of the media coverage of the launch delivered a harsh verdict: Another failure for Elon Musk and SpaceX.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, yes. The first stage of the Starship rocket, Super Heavy, did explode. And the upper stage, Starship, had a failure that caused its flight termination system\u2014explosives on board in case a vehicle begins flying off course\u2014to detonate. But that was to be expected on such an experimental, boundary-pushing test flight.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1985350#p3\">Read 31 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1985350&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1985350\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sorry doubters, Starship actually had a remarkably successful flight<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ Starship launched on Saturday with all 33 Raptor engines burning nominally. (credit: SpaceX) SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas\u2014Starship launches are clarifying events. Pretty quickly after liftoff you find out who understands the rocket business, and who are the casual &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1204724\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1204725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1204724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1204724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1204725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1204724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1204724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1204724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}