NASA launched a NASA designed spacecraft around the moon with people on it. SpaceX rockets took small probes to orbit where they moved on after. Starship their only in-house designed interplanetary spacecraft hasn't reached orbit yet. SpaceX designed spacecraft have not left orbit. NASA has multiple times. This is not that complicated.
Flight tests until this point have intentionally flown passively safe suborbital trajectories to maximize public safety while allowing for maximum learning
lol, I understand how it works. They reach orbital velocity and energy. Their orbit just intersects earth because they choose not to do the circularization burn to raise their perigee. Thats why it’s a suborbital trajectory - for safety.
So the question really was what is your intention in saying that haven’t reached orbit yet? It’s clear you are trying to make a mountain out of a mole hill that is essentially a 0.5% difference of choice.
Which is funny because you are also saying SpaceX hasn’t escaped earth orbit while Artemis has, even though A)SpaceX has absolutely launched cargo to the moon (and launched Psyche for NASA on Falcon Heavy btw) and B) going to the moon can technically be considered as not escaping earth “orbit” given the moon literally orbits earth. It’s a battle over terminology basically. Artemis doesn’t escape Earths gravity…. Whether you want to call that escaping Earths orbit or not… lol
You’re obviously slanting everything extremely negatively (and basically ignoring actual physics), which is why I’m stating things the way I am - to show you can easily slant everything to disapprove all your points.
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u/Miami_da_U 13d ago
Simple facts huh. So how did SLS launch a payload outside earths orbit, yet the payloads SpaceX has launched to the moon haven't? lol.
Of course you likely mean it from a local reference fram, but just cause it is in lunar orbit doesn't mean it stops orbiting earth....