PREVIEW: Colleague Eric Berger of Ars Technica reports that Starship Test #9 fell short of desired reentry test and is a disappointment. More.
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 13 June 2025
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| 0:31.9 | This is John Batchel speaking to colleague Eric Berger of Ars Technica, the chief space correspondent editor, |
| 0:40.9 | about test number nine for Starship and Super Heavy at Bocahika, the success and the failures, |
| 0:47.7 | especially the failure because they didn't learn even what went wrong and never got that far. |
| 0:54.1 | Here, Eric explains much more of this tonight. |
| 0:57.9 | You know, the most recent flight test, I think, was part success and part failure. |
| 1:01.5 | The success came with the, you know, the relaunch of a first stage for the first time. |
| 1:07.3 | So they reflu part of the big part of the rocket. |
| 1:10.7 | And that was a significant success. |
| 1:12.5 | I think the downside is that the upper stage, you know, had to be destroyed again before it |
| 1:20.1 | completed its mission. And really, the big thing they wanted to test with the upper stage this time |
| 1:24.7 | was the tiles that Elon Musk told me before the flight |
| 1:28.2 | test that they had more than a dozen different experiments on board the vehicle to test the |
| 1:33.1 | ability of the tiles to withstand the heating from the atmospheric entry returned to Earth, and it didn't |
| 1:38.6 | get that far. I think that part of the test was a real big disappointment for SpaceX. |
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