SpaceX’s brand-new Starship V3 made a dramatic entrance, with its upper stage gracefully acing a splashdown in the Indian Ocean after an epic suborbital flight. The Super Heavy booster, however, apparently misunderstood the “soft landing” memo and opted for a much louder, more percussive reunion with the Gulf of Mexico after its new Raptor 3 engines had disagreements during the boost-back burn. It’s not a failure; it’s just gathering data at very high velocity.
