I will say one thing for SpaceX: that bit of gear they have which recaptures the rocket booster rather than just letting it fall in the ocean or something actually looks pretty cool. Be nice if Starship were actually better at doing the job it’s supposed to, though… This video is a slightly dry but certainly informative look at what exactly may have gone wrong, using some actually quite stunning footage from SpaceX’s video feed including from the rocket itself, and it also introduced me to the term “RUD”, or “rapid unscheduled disassembly”, which is an… interesting way of saying it blew up, I suppose… As our narrator also notes, this was supposedly the improved version of the thing, which suggests to me that several more improvements might be needed. On the other hand, it did make for an awfully pretty light show, and some of the videos I’ve seen from the people on Turks & Caicos who got the best view of it are kind of amazing… Also, since others have drawn the comparison:
