Tuesday's Starship flight test (Integrated Flight Test 9) was a mix of successes and failures. On the one hand, they (a) proved directional kickback of the Super Heavy booster was possible, (b) achieved trans-atmospheric insertion of Starship, the first since Flight 6...and that was pretty much it.
On the other hand, (a) the Super Heavy demised at the point of the splashdown burn, (b) Starship failed to deploy the Starlink mass-simulator payload from the Ship's Pez dispenser payload bay and (c) suffered a propellant leak which ultimately doomed Starship.
Not the best of circumstances but there's a point here: this was, after all, a test flight and no test flight is ever 100%. Given Elon Musk's words last night, expect the next couple Starship Flight Tests' to be along similar lines as Flight 9 - he has already has at least three Starship Block 2's at Starbase in different stages of rollout and he has several Super Heavys' also ready to go including at least two from previous flights (most likely the boosters from Flights 5 and 8).
This is going to be an interesting summer for SpaceX and the American spaceflight community...
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