I doubt they set out to launch eleven times without reaching orbit.

They very explicitly were not setting out for orbit for most of them.

verzali 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yes, but if you asked someone at SpaceX before flight 1 where they would be by flight 11, I doubt they would have been happy about the reality.

	▲	ThrowawayTestr 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		And?

Not a single one of them had reaching stable orbit in the flight plan.