Wow! I am so impressed. Seems like they took a cautious trajectory and burned lots of fuel on the landing, but that looked great!

Crossing all my fingers and toes for a successful landing, but I’m not sure it’ll be enough.

I keep changing my mind, but it feels like it was a deliberate choice to aim the shield at the camera. It’s so perfectly centered!

I’m convinced that this presentation is a protective spell and Starship won’t survive a launch until it happens.

booooo

It’s wild how quickly they adapted the OLM for Ship testing.

I found this insightful. Eager Space has lost a lot of optimism about the program, and argues that SpaceX is now at the dreaded threshold of hubris. The Apollo program faced a similar crisis after the Apollo 1 disaster.

I find myself agreeing, especially with the spreading “block 3 will fix everything” mentality online. It doesn’t feel that simple.

Thanks! Time flies.

The static fire (at Massey’s) hadn’t actually started. Unclear how the ground systems are doing. At least it’s a pretty night explosion?

Just sent you a message!

Glad it wasn’t just me. That seemed like a ton of venting.

I can’t believe this actually happened. Huh.

This article is worth the read. Starliner was in an extremely precarious situation that we didn’t previously know about.

Petition to make all launch failures this pretty.

It’s so disappointing. Now the next person to write valid, honest critiques will have to overcome this author’s selfishness to get attention.

Berger suggests that “another launch before this summer seems unlikely”.

I think that’s speculation rather than reporting, but it’s nice to have a non-CEO reference point. Hopefully employees get a breather during this redesign, somehow.

I’m struggling to think of a reason that Starship shouldn’t be grounded for 6-12 months after this (I know they won’t be, but I’ll be mad about it). This is a consecutive uncontrolled failure during the “easy” part of the flight over a highly populated region. It seems like pure luck that the RUD didn’t happen early enough to impact land. They’re still doing a great job, but today was rough.

Maybe it’s time to rethink the Texas plans?

Edit: Upon reflection I’m less pessimistic now, as long as the FTS behaved reasonably. But I’ll still be mad if they’re flying again in a month.

Tout est nominal jusqu’à présent! Interesting how wobbly the fairings looked during separation.

Fingers crossed the engine relight is more successful than last time.

I nominate Ariane 6 for the Cutest SRB Award.

Apparently there was an issue with ground equipment.

Due to further operations needed on a ground means interfacing with the launcher, the launch is postponed. The new launch date will be announced following the completion of these operations.