Tag: SpaceX
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To the Naysayers: Shards of Envy in the Golden Age of SpaceX
Once again, critics gather eagerly whenever Elon Musk’s Starship trembles on the launch pad. They hover at the edges of achievement, waiting for smoke and failure, rehearsing their lines about hubris and haste. Each test flight, in their eyes, confirms the prophecy: SpaceX will stumble before China’s steady advance to the Moon. Timelines slip, prototypes…
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Starship Soars: Flight 11 Triumphs and V3 Sets Sights on the Stars
In the grand theater of space exploration, where rockets roar like impatient dragons and the stars wink with quiet approval, SpaceX’s Starship Flight 11 took center stage on October 13, 2025, and delivered a performance worthy of an encore. After a year that saw the Version 2 prototypes endure their share of dramatic explosions—three mid-flight…
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Flight 10, Starship, and the Art of Learning by Fire
If learning is doing, and doing spaceflight is doing really hot doing, then SpaceX is having a masterclass. The tenth integrated test flight of Starship (also called IFT-10) pushed a number of boundaries: new heat shield tiles, mock payload deployment, booster landing experiments, engine relights, etc. Many things succeeded; others revealed gaps (literally) – especially…
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Starship Flight 10: first payload deploy, controlled splashdown — and a curious nudge at the airlock
Last night’s Starship flight test achieved its core goals: clean ascent and staging, first-ever payload-bay operations with eight Starlink V3 mass simulators, re-entry experimentation with intentionally “bad” TPS conditions, and a flip + landing-burn to splashdown in the Indian Ocean captured on buoy-cam. It’s a major step toward routine payload missions. Quick…