At the end of a week of cyber security news – most of which is not happy stuff – it is good to go into the weekend with something lighter. This week a big rocket – the SpaceX Starship.
Fully laden with about 5,000 metric tons of liquid oxygen and methane propellant, the largest rocket ever built needed about 10 seconds to begin clearing the launch pad.
Eric Berger – Ars Technica
The video images from Texas of the launch and from inside the spacecraft are spectacular. You can tell when things started to go wrong, the watching crowd (staff?) got very quiet. The announcer did a good job of making a positive about the $3billion project as it went up in smoke!
SpaceX Starship what’s next?
However it was the biggest rocket to leave the launch pad and SpaceX will not give up on it’s plan to get to Mars.
We have had a couple of weeks of space on Because It’s Friday (I like space stuff) but I think we will look for something different next week. I will see if I can find you something to make you smile.
Clive Catton MSc (Cyber Security) – by-line and other articles
Further Reading
So what was that? Was Starship’s launch a failure or a success? | Ars Technica
