This is CBSI on the world.

Hotel Mars Episode N, David Livingston, Dr. Space, my colleague and co-host and co-pilot is here.

And we're very pleased to be joined by our longtime colleague, Douglas Messier, who keeps a site at Substack.

I highly recommend Doug is a space news reporter.

And right now the reports on what happens at Boca Chica doesn't stay at Boca Chica.

Starship Block 2, 8, 9, and 10.

Questions about all three.

One of them failed over the Caribbean. One of them failed over the Indian Ocean, another one during a static test failed on the stand.

Doug, a very good evening to you. I read a deal of your reporting and compare and contrast. I see no single pattern of these failures of Mr. Musk's genius.

Is there one that has been discovered eight, nine, and ten?

Good evening to you.

Good evening.

Good to be back.

Yeah, there have been actually four failures this year.

On June 18th, there was a

exploded on the stand and in the three previous flights,

the Starship upper stage failed in space.

Now the pattern has been in the ones that have gone to space,

have been leaks and failures of control.

So two of these in January and March broke up over the Caribbean, rather spectacularly.

I've seen video of that.

And the other one made it to the area of the Indian Ocean and suffered a propellant leak and broke up in a reentry.

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