On Tuesday afternoon, just a few hours before a launch attempt of the ninth flight test of SpaceX’s Starship vehicle, Elon Musk spoke with Ars Technica Senior Space Editor Eric Berger to talk about where his space company goes from here.
In recent weeks, Musk has dialed back his focus on politics and said he wants to devote the majority of his time to SpaceX and his other companies. So what does that mean?
The conversation came just ahead of the opening of Starship’s launch window, at 6:30 pm CT (23:30 UTC) in South Texas. Here is a lightly edited transcript of the interview.
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There’s a 100% chance that fuck is still a chode.
Well. Were they fixed?
edit - Got my answer,
“Just to confirm, we did lose contact with the ship officially a couple of minutes ago. So that brings an end to the ninth flight test,” said SpaceX’s Dan Huot during a live feed.
ship separated and had nominal orbital insertion, so they have apparently fixed the engine bay fuel system issues. but it looks like there were other leaks in the fuel system, so they lost main tank pressure which caused them to lose attitude control. so they’re making progress, but there is still more work to do
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“There is a 20% chance to have catastrophic engine failure” is not very confidence inspiring.
