Starship's Tenth Flight Test

Landed on target in the Indian Ocean! Engines relit successfully and it touched down vertically (and then promptly exploded, which I guess was the plan :)

I thought it exploded after it landed?

That was expected. It’s not meant to land on water.

> I thought it exploded after it landed?

It landed on the sea, there was no barge afaik.

Well, yes, it landed in the ocean by design and toppled over because that's what happens when you land a 50m tall spaceship vertically in water.

That's the expected result for this test flight.

There wa supposed to be an earth shattering kaboom. And there was.

This sequence of events (even though expected!) reminds me a lot of the Monty Python and the Holy Grail speech:

> Listen, lad. I built this kingdom up from nothing. When I started here, all there was was swamp. Other kings said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show 'em. It sank into the swamp. So, I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So, I built a third one. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp, but the fourth one... stayed up! And that's what you're gonna get, lad: the strongest castle in these islands.

(although I suppose this ship fell over, then burned down, and then sank into the ocean)

It’s basically a direct description of the reusable booster tests.

It is, for the purpose of this test. Don't want it coming back down on land somewhere unexpected :)