SpaceX Starship Fails in Fiery Test Setback
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Welcome back to watching the China Show. An update here on Space X and the colossal starship here has suffered this ... It tumbled out of control in space, exploded during this test flight. It's a - let's call it a third straight major setback here for Elon Musk's company. Let's bring in Paul Allen, who's been covering the story for us here. Paul, what exactly happened? And we did also hear from Elon Musk just in the last hour in terms of how he's framed this, the setback in the broader scheme of things. Yeah, let's talk about it in two parts, David, because the rocket is in two parts. We'll start with the booster. This was quite interesting, refurbished. The booster had been flown before on Flight seven. The intention was not to catch up with the chopstick arms this time, but to test a number of different landing profiles and then have it splashed down in the Gulf. That didn't happen. That exploded on the ignition for a final landing burn. The second part, the top section of the ship, the starship, also did not go to plan. There was no deployments of the dummy StarLink satellites. There was no relighting of the engines in space. And then the ship lost attitude control. We did hear from Elon Musk, as you say. He said, look, there were leaks that caused a loss of main tank pressure at the re-entry phase and that ship was also lost. So not a great day for SpaceX, test Flight nine, not going to plan, Paul. I mean, this all comes on the backdrop of him. You know, Musk returning back to his companies after a stint in the White House. What's next then? What can SpaceX do to kind of re renew their new focus or what's going to be the next plan? We'll know what's next is they just keep on going and there's always a temptation to frame these sorts of, well, setbacks as major disasters. They're not really this is just how space X rolls. It iterates loudly, publicly. It's not afraid to let things blow up. And that's kind of what we saw today. We have to remember that at the starbase there in Boca Chica, there was a whole production line just turning out ship after ship, booster after booster. And every time something like this happens, they take learnings from it, they redevelop, I reiterate, they go back to the launch pad and they try again. Elon Musk still got some very aggressive timelines around this. He hopes to have robots on Mars next year, which is the next launch window for Mars. During this launch, however, we were speaking with a former astronaut, Colonel William McArthur. He's a little bit skeptical of these timelines. He says getting to Mars still potentially decades away. He says SpaceX might even need to design a new propulsion system that doesn't yet exist. But the objective of getting back to the moon seems to be a little bit more realistic. And this is certainly not the end for space X They'll be back on the launch pad for Flight ten before we know it.
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