Launch – Successful.
Separation – Successful.
Boost back – Successful .
Booster engine re-light for landing failed
Super Heavy hover – Not successful.
Achieving “orbit” – Huge success.
Door open / close – Successful.
Prop transfer – Big success.
Re-entry upper stage – Partial success.
Upper stage hover – Unsuccessful I believe.
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Congrats to SpaceX. They came far, next one in 2-3 months.
Looked like booster and starship both leaked. Booster was the oxygen that leaked I think but starship I couldn’t tell; assuming the gauges were correct.
Congrats to SpaceX on a job well done.
Those Starship shots with the plasma were epic.
Hopefully next launch is just a month or 2 away.
Test fail improve test fail test .
Elons radical back to the past way of doing cutting edge stuff. It worked back then and works today.
My guess is they are going run Starship very similar to Falcon with concentration on orbit payload delivery then failing recovery entries. basically use it as current disposable systems until they perfect the system. Falcon was putting in work offsetting (testing) cost while it failed before it suddenly got to work then profected into a cash cow that it is.
Well, it works today when the regulators permit it, instead of using the fail step as an excuse to delay the test step.
Better than the last, for sure. Next should be 10/10. I can dream!
Starship:
launch 1 was a 3/10
launch 2 was 5/10
launch 3 was a 6/10
it managed to do a sucessful fuel transfer test?? I did not know that! EXCELLENT!
it were a lot of successes. And anyway, booster and starship would be destroyed anyway.
Booster problem was like in the final 5 km.
Starship had some problems earlier but they decided the data from the reentry would be more important then reignite the engines for controlled descent, it seems.