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The enormous Starship roared off a launch pad in southern Texas today and then exploded before it reached space, ending the first major test flight of the largest rocket ever built. Starship and its booster cleared the launch pad and soared to 39 kilometres high, then rotated out of control and blew up four minutes into flight, before the two could separate as planned. “Obviously, this is not a nominal situation,” said John Insprucker, principal integration engineer for the company SpaceX, which built Starship, on a webcast of the launch attempt.
Source: Nature SpaceX Starship: launch of biggest-ever rocket ends with explosion
What does "this is not a nominal situation" mean? The word norminal could mean "small in amount" and so I guess it means "this is not a minor mistake/an unsubstantial problem".
I am not sure. It could have meant more than that and, with a euphemistic rhetoric, showed off a style of being cool-headed, or whatsoever.
Source: Nature SpaceX Starship: launch of biggest-ever rocket ends with explosion
What does "this is not a nominal situation" mean? The word norminal could mean "small in amount" and so I guess it means "this is not a minor mistake/an unsubstantial problem".
I am not sure. It could have meant more than that and, with a euphemistic rhetoric, showed off a style of being cool-headed, or whatsoever.