"These two #Starship explosions were a step backward in SpaceX’s development process, as the flights could not even repeat the successes of earlier test flights, and they perhaps show that the company’s engineers are not as infallible as fans of the company sometimes like to think."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/science/starship-spacex-explosion-elon-musk.html
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@JohnBarentine Well no. These explosions happened with different ships, a different generation of design.
The company showed that it could launch the previous design, and this is a new design that has promise even though it is a stretch.
It's not a step backwards. Just to emphasize it again, this is a new design.
