SpaceX is targeting Monday, April 17 for the first flight of Starship

https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-test

by samwillis • 3 years ago

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jytechdevops• 3 years ago

This will be interesting to see. I'm sure people will tune in to see Elon both succeed or fail. LFG.

Eduard• 3 years ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luft-Fahrzeug-Gesellschaft

LegitShady• 3 years ago

https://onxrp.com/glossary/lfg-lets-fcking-go/

skeswa• 3 years ago

so hype

mensetmanusman3• 3 years ago

An example of real hype that matters.

ttobbaybbob• 3 years ago

it's nice to be wholeheartedly rooting for a company and the technological progress it represents

flandish3• 3 years ago

Let’s be honest: I’m rooting for the technological progress. The company operates like all companies - exploitation and shareholder manipulation.

The progress is a nice outcome. Even if it makes the asshole owner richer.

Especially because the progress should be open for any tech funded by taxpayer dollars.

galacticaactual2• 3 years ago

Lol. Ask some of the early-mid stage employees whether they were exploited given current valuations.

easytiger2• 3 years ago

The company operates like all companies - exploitation and shareholder manipulation

I don#t suppose there is any chance you can explain what this means. Shareholder manipulation? What exploitation do you reductively observe?

TMWNN• 3 years ago

Especially because the progress should be open for any tech funded by taxpayer dollars.

Where did this idea that SpaceX is heavily subsidized by the government come from?

No, the government being a customer != subsidies. (If anything, the government is paying less than market rate, thanks to SpaceX's reusability.)

jutrewag• 3 years ago

I’m rooting for this hard, just wish I liked Elon wholeheartedly like I did a few years ago.

mensetmanusman3• 3 years ago

Everyone has flaws. Our system lets the powerful magnify human flaws though.

jacobolus• 3 years ago

Everyone has flaws, but not everyone has a clinical-level personality disorder or unethically and unlawfully abuses everyone around them, making a career of stealing from taxpayers, vendors, customers, business partners, shareholders, lenders, employees, etc. with a total lack of empathy or remorse, and then whining pathetically about what a huge victim they are.

api• 3 years ago

Even if you're not a fan of Elon or the other stuff he's doing, remember that this is the product of thousands of other people who have worked for SpaceX. It also incorporates the innovations of thousands more who worked for previous rocket companies and NASA over the years since we first started firing stuff into space.

Elon deserves credit for getting this thing going, but it ain't a sole proprietorship. People who didn't like John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, or Werner von Braun could still enjoy watching human beings land on the moon.

Humans are nuts and if we go to space it'll mean crazy humans will be in space. There will be greasy politicians, arrogant business magnates, trolls, culture wars, ... all of it ... in space...

colordrops• 3 years ago

Why put him at the center of it all with your comment then? There are a literally million other things to talk about when it comes to SpaceX and space travel.

dang5• 3 years ago

Please let's not have another boo-vs.-yay $celebrity thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

00F_2• 3 years ago

why not lock replies in such threads to being non-repliable? its not the initial comments or the replies but the giant argument chains that are the problem. or you could allow arguments but offload them to twitter spaces or another real-time platform thats well-suited to such nonsense.

dang5• 3 years ago

We've moved most comments to the related ongoing thread:

The FAA has granted SpaceX permission to launch its Starship rocket - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35575298

hadlock• 3 years ago

Isn't this the better thread? It links directly to the original source. Ars Technica is just reporting on the SpaceX page

dang5• 3 years ago

They've added some additional background.

spieden• 3 years ago

If I want to watch, is it the 2-hour countdown that starts at 7:00 a.m. Central time?

codeulike• 3 years ago

https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-...

Live now, launching in 25 mins

SpaceX is targeting Monday, April 17 for the first flight of Starship

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