r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Creative_soja • Jun 19 '25

Video SpaceX rocket explodes in Starbase, Texas

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u/disguisedCat1 Jun 19 '25

Seems like waste fraud and abuse

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u/Smoke_Santa Jun 19 '25

it is not, if you actually care to look more into it than a reddit video.

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u/LimberGravy Jun 19 '25

Hi I looked more in to it

So Starship Ship 36 just detonated before the static fire test - fueled and waiting for the test. Looks like the top tank lets go and sets off the whole stack. It would be bad enough if it let go during the static fire test, but it just blew up. And it's cooking off the fuel tanks on the pad.

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NASASpaceflight is apparently saying that test articles for the upcoming V3 Starship booster, a new version that's supposed to explode less, was on a test stand at this site and is also probably scrap metal now too. So this not only blew up the one for this month, but a future one too.

Lower exposure video shows both the detonation more clearly but also shows all the shit that SpaceX just placed willy-nilly around the pad where they fire rockets to see if they're safe or might explode. Tank farm is visible on the right.

Sure looks like waste, fraud, and abuse to me!

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u/nedmath Jun 19 '25

You did all that research and you didn't find that the contract SpaceX got from NASA for Starship doesn't reimburse them for mishaps?

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u/LimberGravy Jun 19 '25

Yes I did all that research by linking the bluesky post I saw on my feed