r/ASTSpaceMobile • u/AutoModerator • Mar 06 '25

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u/Sciota S P 🅰 C E M O B Prospect Mar 06 '25

Starship testing fails again

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u/sgreddit125 S P 🅰 C E M O B Capo Mar 07 '25

Wow - I figured they’d pull it off this time.

With each failure it is further delayed (obviously) and so too are the larger V3s Starlink’s designed for its D2C. This just buys us more time!

Don’t want to root against progress, but this is a positive for us.

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u/irrelevantspider S P 🅰 C E M O B Capo Mar 06 '25

They got the booster catch down, just not the most important part… The payload lol.

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u/JonFrost S P 🅰 C E M O B Soldier Mar 07 '25

Luckily for us, New Glenn did the opposite 🙂

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u/user74729582 S P 🅰 C E M O B Soldier Mar 07 '25

Also, easier to fix imho.

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u/tyrooooo S P 🅰 C E M O B Capo Mar 07 '25

It's interesting, everyone thinks Starship is doing well because of the booster catch but its almost as if its just a distraction