

Starship launch failure. This has nothing to do with the next post, which has already been successful.
The latest launch failed. They recovered the booster but the starship itself lost engines one at a time and then stopped sending telemetry. Update: Engines worked fine up until explosion, as reported above. Here is why:
Small fragments. Obviously exploded after engines started failing. Compare that to Columbia, which entered intact and then broke up. Large fragments, Columbia did not explode.
Cause of starship explosion speculated A propellant leak that was too big for the starship to vent caused an over pressure which ruptured the entire ship and led to an explosion. The solution: put bigger vents on the ship so that does not happen again. I guess leaks are normal fare and as long as nothing touches them off, nothing happens.
""Preliminary indication is that we had an oxygen/fuel leak in the cavity above the ship engine firewall that was large enough to build pressure in excess of the vent capacity. Apart from obviously double-checking for leaks, we will add fire suppression to that volume and probably increase vent area. Nothing so far suggests pushing next launch past next month,"
SpaceX is cleared to do 25 starship launches per year. The new analysis is different from what was said yesterday, where they claimed the engines failed one by one which caused Starship to not get enough speed. Most likely the new analysis is based on the cruise ship video, which they could analyze and get an actual speed of more than 13,000 KM/h at time of explosion which means the rockets were working fine and sensors misreported.
SpaceX just launched two lunar landers, UPDATE, this launch is not the same as the one above.
SpaceX happens to be launching a lot of stuff, this happened in the past 24 hours also.
One will arrive in 45 days and the other in about 4 months. No point in posting details until they don't crash, however, one does have a rover which, if configured properly, ought to be able to put in some real miles. IF the Mars rovers ever were real, they were super slow because of the time it took for signals to reach Mars. They could not be driven more than a few meters a day because all travel was effectively blind, and it was necessary to wait for up to 45 minutes just to see where the rovers were going so they did not get stuck or go off a cliff. Since less than half a mars day was available, the rovers simply could not be moved much. With the moon, that wait will be at most 5 seconds which will allow near real time control. A properly designed moon rover ought to be able to put in miles per day. The downfall of a lunar rover will be night time on the moon, where it will literally freeze to death for two weeks so one can't possibly last more than two weeks (of daylight) absent amazing luck. Wait and see I guess.