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Starship's Tenth Flight Test

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364 points metalman | 1 comments | 26 Aug 25 23:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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chasd00 ◴[27 Aug 25 00:38 UTC] No.45034091[source]▶
Just saw the splash down. I think this was 100% successful test.
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kersplody ◴[27 Aug 25 00:50 UTC] No.45034176[source]▶
Not quite, but it's a major milestone. Still quite a bit of work to go on the rapid reusability part (burnt flaps, oxidized body, missing tiles, tile waterproofing). Starship might actually deliver payload to orbit on flight 11.
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rlt ◴[27 Aug 25 01:01 UTC] No.45034247[source]▶
They mentioned in the stream they were intentionally stressing the ship on reentry.

But yes, “rapid reusability” is a ways off. I expect they’ll be spending weeks inspecting and repairing ship and booster before reflight for a few years, but they’ll drive it down over time.

TBD how “rapid” the reusability ends up being in the end.

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BurningFrog ◴[27 Aug 25 02:37 UTC] No.45034867[source]▶
The ship and booster both sank in the ocean as planned, so there is no inspecting and repairing phase.

I think that work can be done quite well based on all the footage and other collected metrics.

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1. rlt ◴[27 Aug 25 18:05 UTC] No.45042949[source]▶
I didn't mean this ship and booster, I mean in a year or so when they're done with the test phase and frequently launching Starlink satellites on Starship.