OK, not tomorrow, but next Sunday, for the next Starship attempt.
[Monday-morning update
Stephen Clark has the story on what went wrong on previous flights, and what they’ve done to prevent a recurrence.
But I have no idea what the phrase “human-rated lander” means.
[Sunday-afternoon update]
Less than two hours to go, weather permitting.
Starship 10 launching tonight https://t.co/EOgGbS3Om7
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 24, 2025
[Bumped]
[Tuesday-morning update]
Third time’s the charm?
Interesting how quickly they are able to develop new failure modes…
Fun that they were able to generate enough force to collapse the internal transfer tube in the booster in the landing experiments!
Here’s hoping the new Block-3s are more refined. Reportedly there are at least 8 block-3 ships already in production (vs only 4 of the current block-2s built).
But I have no idea what the phrase “human-rated lander” means.
That the depth of the landing footprint does not exceed the height of the lander occupants?
Correction:
That the depth of the landing footprint does not exceed the height of the lander occupants at the instant when the lander reaches its minimum altitude.
However the rating would very depending upon the occupant(s). Mice or cockroaches would presumably have a different standard, but we are specifically discussing a human-rated lander…
Curious if NASA has other ratings?
Scrubbed
Splitters!
Looks like they are going to try again today. Same time of day.
Here is a live update.
https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-10
Nope…
No one wants a repeat of what happened on Apollo 12.
https://youtu.be/-rqL035klC4?feature=shared
Wow, what a great flight that was!
Absolutely. I was nervous, but that looked fantastic.
Nailed it!
Congratulations. I’d say parts of one flap looked well done…
Have to find out what the explosion was from but all in all a great flight.
Looked like COPV fiber fragments/shards floating around just after the event.
FAE, methane vapors left in fuel tanks squeezed out when the hull buckled from impacting the water detonating is my guess. I am really impressed that they landed so close to the downrange camera.