hperrin comments on Blue Origin rocket New Glenn explosion during a test at Kennedy Space Center in Cocoa Beach, FL. 28.05.26

Catastrophic Failure

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A catastrophic failure is a sudden and total failure from which recovery is impossible. Catastrophic failures often lead to cascading systems failure. The term is most commonly used for structural failures, but has often been extended to many other disciplines in which total and irrecoverable loss occurs, such as a head crash occurrence on a hard disk drive. Such failures are investigated using the methods of forensic engineering, which aims to isolate the cause or causes of failure. (Wikipedia)

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 18 points 5 months ago (3 children)

We should privatize the space industry even more!!! What could possibly continue to go wrong?

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[–] protist@retrofed.com 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'm in no way supportive of privatizing spaceflight, but this ignores the reality of the many, many catastrophic explosions that have occurred among publicly funded rocketry programs. Turns out strapping a capsule to a giant bomb and trying to control it while it explodes is pretty dangerous

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

SLS didn’t have a failure nearly this bad.

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[–] protist@retrofed.com 0 points 5 months ago

But all the agencies responsible for SLS (NASA, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin) have lengthy histories of engineering and construction of rocket systems and have had their fair share of catastrophies. Blue Origin does not have that history.

I can't believe I'm defending Blue Origin, I think I just threw up in my mouth

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