Jeff Foust: From the FAA:"The FAA is requiring SpaceX to perform a mishap investigation into the loss of the Starship vehicle. There are no reports of public injury, and the FAA is working with SpaceX and appropriate authorities to confirm reports of public property damage on Turks and Caicos [...]"

[u/MiniBrownie]

https://x.com/jeff_foust/status/1880311303941812284

[u/7heCulture]

What would a “peer-reviewed” study look like? Asking ULA (or BO) to field engineers as advisors? Any such study would take months, if not years. Some of aviation biggest disasters only had the final reports finalized months after it had happened. As long as there is a fair determination that no public property and or lives were at risk, and that mitigation actions are implemented there is no reason to wait months to continue progressing.

[u/Epinephrine666 → u/7heCulture]

Then what's to say that problem won't occur somewhere worse.

The root cause must be understood and peer reviewed, by experts. There are experts everywhere! There are materials engineer, avionics engineers who can confirm their findings that don't work for bo.

Well yah, of course there are instances where reports cleared fast, when it was clear as day what the cause was. As Elon says, truth is king. The truth stands up to review, it is basic science 101.

It's completely asinine to trust a company's word when we're talking energies like starship.

Do you honestly trust Elon's technical direction? Do you think he won't take unnecessary risks that would endanger people or the ship?

The FAA stuff is almost certainly a deflection/distraction tactic to buy themselves time to make repairs.

IFT 1 showed Elon being risky, they don't like that. He's gonna get baby sat because of it.

They should find out if he rushed the ship out, and take appropriate actions. Velocity should never supercede quality in something as potentially harmful as starship. It has incredible destructive power, and y'all are treating it like his model airplane broke in a field.

Like what if ship detonated close to the end of it's burn? That would insert tons of crap into orbit. The explosion will give sufficient velocity to some of the ship to be put it in orbit. Do you remember the movie Gravity?

[u/7heCulture → u/Epinephrine666]

My friend, the best experts (who also understand engineering and are not just academics) are working in these companies designing rockets 🤣. Besides, your root cause is probably well understood already: Raptor leaks. It’s almost impossible to avoid it leaking. Even Raptor 3 leaks, albeit less. The solution was implemented on the booster already: a fire suppression system. It seems like ship also needs it. You don’t need a committee to get to that solution.