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> Yeah, breaking up in-air during re-entry (at 65 km going by last telemetry) seems like a potential big issue to fix. That's what pretty much every non-SpaceX

• ta1243 3y ago
  And indeed every spacex rocket. Starship is the second stage -- and a second stage on a F9 burns up in the atmosphere just as much as Starship from IFT3 did. The big things to fix seem to be 1) The roll rates for starship (which prevented the inflight relighting test) 2) The Booster relights, which didn't have enough lighting to soft land. Both of those feel like minor problems. I'm amazed that the propellant transfer demo seems to have worked first time, and of course they managed to get the tihng up there in the first place. The reusability of the Starship part of the system is a much bigger unknown, but that doesn't seem to be necessary for the next launch. Wouldn't surprise me if the next try is by the end of April