| ▲ | stetrain 5 days ago | |
I wouldn't expect that on the next flight. One option is they can run it again with the data gained from missing tiles etc. and see if there is an improvement. They could also do a similar flight but with an actual orbital insertion and de-orbit if they are confident in the odds of success of the de-orbit burn. Landing the ship at the launch site means overflying land and potentially populated areas, so I think they're going to want to demonstrate successful control, re-entry, and landing from orbit a few times before attempting that. | ||
| ▲ | plqbfbv 5 days ago | parent [-] | |
That's not out of reach/plans according to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Starship_launches#Futu... But I agree with you, I'd rather have test flight 11 demonstrate at least another successful reentry with no issues (they had a non-fatal explosion on ship reentry in flight 10) before attempting to catch the booster AND landing the ship. | ||