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Starship’s first soft upper-stage splashdown in the Indian Ocean, captured live by a MarkSetBot buoy via Starlink telemetry.

Starship test nails ascent, staging, 8 Starlink deploys, reentry experiment and flip splashdown – minor airlock scrape noted, fixes planned.

Starship 10 scrubbed at T-10s by weather; Booster 16 and Ship 37 tests: flip, hover-splash, engine relight, Starlink demos rescheduled.

Apollo’s ‘SCE to AUX’ – a DevOps lesson: restore observability first, build simple hardware/software fallbacks, label and drill runbooks.
