rip starship ift-7

@Toinkove I never said it was the plan for it to be destroyed

@AstrumY No one is twisting anyone’s words here, it’s literally what you typed!

@Toinkove it was not the "plan" but it wasn't something shocking Like it's the 7th time it flew. So please stop twisting my words

@AstrumY “not necessarily unexpected”
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Ok well if it was the plan was for starship to be destroyed in flight when it was (about 8:30 into the flight) then I’ll revise my assessment. But if not, sounds like we’re just lowering the standards so we can claim success.

@Toinkove That still was one of the MOST Important parts they've done this only once before Not like with falcon where it's routine. Plus Loosing starship considering it was v 2 is disappointing but not necessarily unexpected . I mean it would've just exploded in the ocean but spacex couldn't gather Data from reentry wich was the actual primary goal of IFT 7

@Toinkove the payload was just Simulators but you're right it was dissappinting seeing it disintegrate.

@Toinkove yeah, it would have been cool to see live veiws of the dummy starlink v2s deploy from the despenser.

Correct, the booster landed back at the launch site! Unfortunately that's far less mission critical then keeping your primary craft (and payload) from exploding!

@Toinkove ???

You mean the least important part happened? Correct!