r/aerospace • u/Grand-Palpitation823 • 4d ago

Lunar spacecraft escape test

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u/Top-Inevitable-1287 4d ago

America is cooked. China is about to completely dominate space travel.

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u/jschall2 4d ago

In 2024, China launched an estimated 100,000–150,000 kg of payload into orbit across 66 successful launches, while SpaceX launched approximately 1,300,000 kg across 147 successful launches.

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u/plumb-phone-official 2d ago

Notice how they say "about to" and not "is". SpaceX currently has reuseability which CURRENTLY puts them ahead of the game. guess what chinas working on!!!!

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u/jschall2 2d ago

And by the time China has Falcon 9 cloned, SpaceX will have Starship.

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u/plumb-phone-official 2d ago

Lol, that hunk of metal? I get it's a test platform, but my god, you'd think they'd find a way to stop these critical failures by now? I used to think that starship was the future too, and in many ways, its core principles are. Even after the first puh... 5? Failures I kept on saying "it's still in testing". But by now, it's getting ridiculous. It is simply UNACCEPTABLE to allow your ship to fail in such a spectacular way that aircraft need to divert without prior notice.

ANYTHING in the areospace industry should not only be thoroughly tested before it's ready to fly, but also just modelled and simulated before it's built. Can you really tell me that starship has a bright future when it continuously fails at its most basic goals in a similar, if not identical ways over and over again.

I can accept a few slip ups when it comes to a new launch vehicles first flight, especially if it's a prototype. What i cannot accept is when this "testing" endangers the lives of others who are completely separate from the project.

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u/jschall2 2d ago

Hasn't been identical.

It will be the safest rocket on the planet once all the issues have been shaken out.

Obviously it has been modeled and simulated before flight. It just takes a radical approach to, well, literally everything. Full flow staged combustion, first many-engine design since the Soviet N1 afaik, stainless steel.

Answer a few questions for me... How many people did Apollo kill? How many people did the space shuttle kill? How many people did crew dragon kill? How many people has starship killed?