SpaceX conducted its ninth test flight of the Starship Launch Vehicle atop a Falcon Heavy booster from Starbase, Texas. See all the highlights from the test launch.
Read more about Starship Test Flight 9 on CNET.com
SpaceX’s Next Starship Test Flight on Tuesday
0:00 Liftoff
1:10 Maximum Dynamic Pressure
1:50 Hot Staging
2:38 Booster Engine Cutoff
3:30 Booster Begins Fall Back to Earth
5:11 Super Heavy Booster Re-entry
8:45 Starship Engine Cutoff
12:32 Starlink Satellite Simulators
14:02 Payload Door Fails to Open
14:38 Starship Loses Control
16:48 Starship Begins Breaking Apart
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May 27, 2025 at 9:54 pm
Read more about Starship Test Flight 9 on CNET.com: SpaceX’s Next Starship Test Flight on Tuesday
@JustMe-dc6ks
May 28, 2025 at 1:18 am
Error in description. Not a Falcon heavy 😀
@brookeonmaui
May 28, 2025 at 1:54 pm
Operation Paperclip 2.0
@joehopfield
May 28, 2025 at 2:21 pm
Stole tax money from AIDS programs, condemned millions of children to death, but you did get clear pictures of another colossal engineering failure.
Say what you will about the original Nazis, they could build working rockets (almost 100 years ago). Pathetic and sick.
@countryside6550
May 28, 2025 at 2:26 pm
❤ Elon ❤
@shrey.kandpal
May 28, 2025 at 2:26 pm
This is Huge!
I’ve been following this program since Lab Padre first showed glimpse of hoppy back in 2018.
Still i know, everything they are doing is groundbreaking and it will take time. We have to be optimistic with its timeline bcz thats the only hope we have.
I know ppl may feel disappointed but space is not just hard it’s the hardest thing human’s have ever achieved. And building rapid usable rocket able to launch multiple times a day with 33 engines at its back is even 1000x harder.
So trust me these guys these ppl only deserve our respect and nothing else. Elon may not be the best idol for everyone, but his vision is gonna change how we see space.
@MultiSeptember28
May 28, 2025 at 2:44 pm
So this was testing the limits?
@kwameyeboah9106
May 28, 2025 at 2:47 pm
Some of you can’t even pass a tread through a needle.
It is just a matter of time and Starship will shame it critics.
@AP-qs2zf
May 28, 2025 at 3:00 pm
love how fan boys cover the failure
@AP-qs2zf
May 28, 2025 at 3:01 pm
Blue orign going to make it to the moon before starship lol
@colornews9168
May 28, 2025 at 3:09 pm
ignited for landing burn 😮😮
@Hurricane1668
May 28, 2025 at 3:50 pm
Once…anomaly
Twice…coincidence
Three times…you have a pattern.
A major design flaw not accounted for using iterative development
@JustherefortheLOLZ
May 28, 2025 at 4:19 pm
I have to love “rapid unscheduled disassembly”.
@stoyandimitrov9352
May 28, 2025 at 4:28 pm
Ahh so close… 😂
@DjairosXVIII
May 28, 2025 at 4:30 pm
Amazing CGI! When this game came out? 😅😂
@markmeadows7093
May 28, 2025 at 4:32 pm
Hey we got to keep trying this is important. I say by the next test flight or two they will get it dialed in. Please quit being so pessimistic and mean.
@radomone
May 28, 2025 at 4:50 pm
why does she sound so weird
@bc24us
May 28, 2025 at 5:01 pm
Does the rocket have a robot arm to do the salute Elon likes so much?
@KingsleySiu-xe7er
May 28, 2025 at 5:05 pm
starship is impossible
@JSmith-nu4bl
May 28, 2025 at 6:59 pm
I know this guy from somewhere
@Zupdood2
May 28, 2025 at 7:03 pm
Womp, womp. 🫤
@polpocari
May 28, 2025 at 7:11 pm
But Elon said NASA is a waste of money! 😅
@uraymeiviar
May 28, 2025 at 7:23 pm
still better than what bezos did
@MustafaSultan-mf5sr
May 28, 2025 at 7:31 pm
US Moon Landing 1960s 😉😉😉😉
@mnd67
May 28, 2025 at 9:07 pm
Starship booster is a Super Heavy Booster. Falcon Heavy is a different launch system.
@orionhale788
May 28, 2025 at 9:25 pm
The tanks need suspension wires to negate sonic resonance. Think of how the first suspension bridges collapsed due to resonance matching curvature in high winds. The tanks need spider webbing via sprung cables encompassing tanks within a geometric pattern of strung cables. Also foam insulation. The kind you spray in cavities that’s yellow. It keeps pipes and things in place when the pressure changes and with temperature changes. It insulates pipes from pressure and vibration and temperature differential. Not to mention the shaking when ascending on the booster. NASA use foam insulation for those reasons. However a type of strung geometry cradle is necessary to keep tanks in place making sure that fire resistant cloth insulation is between the cable chassis and the tanks.