SpaceX Starship Missed Its Landing Spot By 6 Kilometers Says Musk

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Soon after SpaceX's successful fourth Starship test flight yesterday, which saw both the booster and the spacecraft successfully soft land in the ocean, Elon Musk shared additional and new details for the test in an interview. Musk regularly engages with the broader spaceflight community and YouTube journalists in the form of social media posts and interviews. This time around, the billionaire executive was talking with Eliana Sheriff from the YouTube channel Ellie in Space. During the talk, Musk revealed that not only did he not expect the second stage Starship to survive reentry after its forward flap caught fire but that the rocket's soft landing was slightly off target.

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After yesterday's launch, another YouTuber shared clips of their interview with Musk. This interview, run by Tim Dodd of the YouTube channel Everyday Astronaut, took place before the test flight. The clip saw Musk speculate that one or more of Starship's fins could be vulnerable to fire during re entry. According to him, this is because of the risks of hot gas entering the hinge or the gap between the flap and Starship's body.

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Now, Musk's talk with Ellie in Space is the first publicly available interview he's given since yesterday's launch. In this talk, Musk shares that SpaceX hit "two key re usability milestones, which was having the booster boost back to a precise location and execute a landing burn and land softly in the water." Along with the booster, the second milestone saw SpaceX "getting the ship to go all the way through the super high heating of re entry where it's coming in like a meteor and then maintain control sub sonically."

Musk added that while