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Starship Was Doomed From The Beginning
The fatal flaw SpaceX can’t overcome.
Musk’s impotent attempts to get his giant shiny phallus to work are the perfect metaphor for the man. Indeed, Starship seemed promising at first if you didn’t ask too many questions. But, after back-to-back failures and having never come close to completing its design brief (including actually landing Starship and making the spacecraft fully reusable), as well as a litany of painful design flaws, such as only being able to take 50% of its promised payload capacity to orbit, many are starting to question the viability of this idiotic machine and its “iterative design process.”. And so they should. Indeed, with the most recent launch failure as context, it becomes evident that Starship was doomed from the get-go and that SpaceX might never be able to rectify this mess.
Why?
Well, for a start, the past two launches (tests 7 and 8) seemed to fail for the exact same reason.
Like the launch back in January, the latest launch initially went well, with the Super Heavy Booster separating, landing safely, and taking Starship into a suborbital space trajectory. But once in space, that’s where all the problems began.
Both tests failed when an uncontrollable fire broke out in the aft section, taking out rocket engines, severing…
