The most interesting thing to me is SpaceX clearly has a lower risk tolerance then NASA. "Oh, an engine on both stages failed to fire? Eh. Its fine." On the one hand, this is good for unmanned missions where the goal is to put satellite's into orbit and wat not. But they are going to have to tighten things up for crewed missions.
Still, this is quite the accomplishment. The payload for this mission was 44,000 Kilograms.
For context, the Artemis 2 Payload was 27,000 Kilograms, and that was up until now, the heaviest launch stack ever sent up. The SLS system is also not reusable, unlike this system (allegedly). If SpaceX can work out the gremlins in this system this thing is a real beast that could very well fulfill the promise of a new frontier. For example, Starship could do everything Artemis 2 did, and have thousands of metric tons left over to put other things the 4 person crew could use on a hypothetical lunar mission. Like say, transporting an excavator. Transporting deployable habitat modules. Transporting months worth of food and water.
The key thing demonstrated though is the system got the payload into space and was able to deploy it. Which is an unqualified success, despite the seethe on reddit. Also important to keep in mind, a system capable of landing doesn't just mean landing on earth. It can land on other places too.
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Anyway, the next few months are going to be pretty boring as far as rocket launches go. Flight 13 of Starship is scheduled for "sometime" in June. But what they intend to do with it hasn't been announced yet. After that we are pretty much done for the year beyond the regular schedule of Falcon 9 and Dragon launches. NASA ain't doing shit and neither is Blue Origin. The Falcon Heavy will be launching a space telescope in August which could be cool, but after Flight 13 the next big event will be Boeing trying a redo of Starliner. "Maybe" in December.
