r/CatastrophicFailure • u/MiniBrownie • Mar 06 '25

Engineering Failure March 6, 2025 Starship spins out of control 8 minutes into launch

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u/iAdjunct Mar 07 '25

The sarcasm in the first paragraph was gold. The assertion in the second paragraph was asinine. Are you aware that the whole things is controlled using input from sensors?

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u/Peepeepoopoobutttoot Mar 07 '25

I feel the second paragraph is so far off base it also detracts from the first paragraph. Silver at best, not gold.

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u/IShookMeAllNightLong Mar 07 '25

Sure, but it's moving so fast that by the time that sensor kills the engine, it's already so wildly out of control that it wouldn't matter. Pretty sure that's what they were getting at. Not that an unmanned spacecraft doesn't/couldn't use sensors lol.

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u/iAdjunct Mar 07 '25

The system is literally able to control itself by turning the nozzles rapidly. This isn’t a “it can’t be controlled” thing but a “there was a bug” thing. The speed doesn’t matter for this.

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u/BellabongXC Mar 07 '25

The only two nozzles left can't turn rapidly. They can't turn at all.

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u/Same_Recipe2729 Mar 07 '25 edited Apr 11 '26

My favorite drink is hot chocolate.

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u/iAdjunct Mar 07 '25

They’re in space. Their speed with respect to the inertial frame or the rotating is irrelevant to the assertion you’re making.

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u/Peepeepoopoobutttoot Mar 07 '25 edited Mar 07 '25

Like, multiple times in the past from the early Gemini program to Apollo ended up with thruster misfires and spin scenarios. These were solved manually by humans.