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With Starship Flight 10, SpaceX prioritized resilience over perfection
SpaceX proves it can fly through failures on Starship’s tenth test flight.
NASA’s Artemis program hinges on SpaceX developing a heat shield that survives reentry, and a ship that can reliably relight on orbit, in order to deliver astronauts safely to the lunar surface. The company will introduce many more changes with the next version of Starship, called Block 3, including a higher-thrust Raptor engine, upgrades to the flaps on Ship, and updates to avionics and guidance, navigation and control systems. The next step is translating Flight 10 data into future hardware upgrades to move closer to routine operations and days when, as Musk envisioned, “Starship launches more than 24 times in 24 hours.”
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