rocket landing off of Hawaii

[leilanidude]

No matter what opinions you might hold about SpaceX, they excel at showing live on-board videos.
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Certainly better than a recent, failed landing on the moon by a different company. All we got out of that was animations that looked like a 5th grader did them.

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

animations that looked like a 5th grader did them.

They’re companies with entirely different goals. Starship is built to carry massive amounts of supplies and humans into space.  SpaceX launched it empty, so plenty of room for cameras.

Odysseus was a lightweight craft meant to ferry experiments and in the future some supplies to the moon.  Unmanned.  Every ounce is accounted for.  So cameras are tiny.   Their company is relatively small, every person working on absolutely necessary functions, not photos and video to entertain the masses for 12 seconds until they scroll on to the next thing.

Starship broke up 54 km over the Indian Ocean.  Odysseus landed on it’s side.  Both advanced their ability to improve future missions.  Both were a success.

Maybe the next Starship will land near Hawaii?

[TomK]

No matter what opinions you might hold about SpaceX, they excel at showing live on-board videos.
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Certainly better than a recent, failed landing on the moon by a different company. All we got out of that was animations that looked like a 5th grader did them.

On the contrary, the company learned a lot about landing a spacecraft on the south pole of the moon. Whether 5th graders or not would have made better animations is not important. Making these test flights is a vital part of restarting the space program. Even SpaceX didn't get off to a smooth start.

https://youtu.be/bvim4rsNHkQ?si=K7Q9hUV8yahOJ_ff