In Starship case, the whole upper stage is the payload. As it was designed to be a second stage reentry test. They likely had some soft of test weight in the s

In Starship case, the whole upper stage is the payload. As it was designed to be a second stage reentry test. They likely had some soft of test weight in the starship as well. > So dictionary is used now to decide if an operation a launch or not? Are you for real? I'm not sure what your hangup is, nobody said anything about operational. If you show 1 million people a video of the Starship launching, all those people would call it a launch. If it was operational or successful has nothing to do with anything.