Starship Flight 7 RUD

Starship S33 Explosion and Re-Entry after Anomaly | RUD Starship S33 Flight 7
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I don't know why anyone uses the acronym RUD (Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly). Why don't they just say it dun blowd up? Either someone was either trying to be clever when they coined the term, or they were lost in acronym land and everything had to have an acronym, so they coined this one.

SpaceX launched their big booster with a Starship on top this week. The booster returned to the launch site and was caught by the outstretched arms of Mechazilla. The Starship itself did not fare so well, exploding on the way up to orbit and giving us this light show.

The Silicon Graybeard has a longer post.

Putting one of these rockets together costs about $100 million. Space Launch Systems, Boeing's baby is supposed to cost $2 billion per launch.