T+246: Starship’s First Test Flight (with Jake Robins)

Starship finally(?) flew its first test flight! Jake Robins of Off-Nominal joins me to sort through our thoughts on how it went (it was janky), what’s next for Starship, and to try and figure out if SpaceX wasted more steel or time this week.

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Topics

• Jake Robins (@JakeOnOrbit) / Twitter
• Starship Flight Test - YouTube
• SpaceX on Twitter: “Liftoff from Starbase”
• Starship lifts off on first integrated test flight, breaks apart minutes later - SpaceNews
• Off-Nominal
• Off-Nominal - YouTube
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