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A Quick Summary: Booster 14 had a so-called Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly (RUD) during its descent back to the Gulf of Mexico several minutes after launch... The payload (a batch of fake Starlink satellites) once again didn't deploy, just like in the two previous Integrated Flight Tests... And lastly, there was no reentry data from Ship 35 due to this vehicle committing its own RUD following a loss of attitude control caused by a propellant leak after second engine cut-off.
Starship Flight 9 should might as well have ended the same way the first two missions of 2025 did—with Ships 33 and 34 littering the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean islands with debris after exploding during their ascent to a suborbital altitude. SpaceX was better off just human-rating its Falcon Heavy rocket instead; a Dragon vehicle carrying crew might've actually reached Mars by now. We'll overlook the cost and logistics of how the astronauts would've survived a six-month trip to the Red Planet inside that capsule.
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