Starship Flight 10 completed its tenth test flight with both the Super Heavy booster and the Starship upper stage successfully landing in designated splashdown zones. The vehicle experienced no rapid unscheduled disassemblies and met every major objective, supplying critical data to inform next-generation Starship and Super Heavy designs while stressing vehicle limits. Social media included celebratory posts and a mocking tweet aimed at CNN's headline. Mainstream media responses varied: some outlets emphasized prior failures and used negative framing, while several other sources published positive coverage, including notably favorable pieces in major publications.
Starship Flight 10 was a huge success for SpaceX. When both the Super Heavy booster and the Starship Upper Stage successfully landed on their designated splashdown zones, the space community was celebrating. The largest and most powerful rocket in the world had successfully completed its tenth test flight. And this time around, there were no rapid unscheduled disassemblies during the mission.
This was in full force with Starship Flight 10's coverage. Take the BBC's Facebook post about the fight test, which read "Elon Musk's giant rocket, earmarked for use in a 2027 mission to the Moon, has had multiple catastrophic failures in previous launches." CNN was more direct with its slant, writing "SpaceX's troubled Starship prototype pulls off successful flight after months of explosive mishaps" on its headline.
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