Elon Musk’s private space company SpaceX lost its launch vehicles during Starship’s first two test flights. Now pieces of debris from these explosions are being sold for thousands of dollars on the shopping site eBay, and SpaceX has been lax about taking back the spacecraft.
SpaceX Starship wreckage pieces are up for sale on eBay
An eBay seller described in an interview a piece of tile left over from the company’s last launch attempt. “Found it floating out of the water at the end of the breakwaters on South Padre Island.” told. to SpaceX “debris reporting hotline and email” After providing information via the company, the seller “send or keep the parts to them” He said he could choose.
Sales person, “I decided to keep it,” said. “I counted that the three of us collected five pieces. There were some small pieces, but I couldn’t reach them. “We weren’t really looking for parts, they just passed us while fishing.” The website lists these tiles on the eBay shopping site. for 7 thousand 500 dollars He found that it was sold for .
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SpaceX Starship is known for its explosions and striking stainless steel exterior, but the bottom of the rocket is lined with 18,000 black silica-based hexagonal tiles as a heat shield. These reusable tiles were designed to withstand temperatures above 2,500 degrees, so they were expected to remain intact when the rockets exploded.
The tiles themselves have no monetary value and are valued primarily as souvenirs. While SpaceX is a successful business with major contracts with NASA, the company has yet to achieve any of the ambitious goals Musk has set for the company, nor has it achieved the successes that national space programs remember.
SpaceX’s spacecraft broke up when it re-entered the atmosphere over the Indian Ocean. As the authorities could not claim these pieces, the people who found these pieces of wreckage put them up for sale on the eBay shopping site.