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What Starship failure means for Elon Musk’s Mars plans

By Editorial Board Published May 28, 2025 5 Min Read
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What Starship failure means for Elon Musk’s Mars plans

Elon Musk’s plans to go to Mars could not have come crashing all the way down to Earth however they’ve definitely suffered a major setback.

The ninth check flight of Starship, the SpaceX spacecraft particularly designed to make “humans an interplanetary species”, ended with it spinning uncontrolled over the Indian Ocean.

This was Starship’s third consecutive failure.

The machine that was touted as taking people so far as Mars as quickly as 2028 has but to make an orbit of Earth.

Musk’s near-term Mars plans look much more like science fiction.

No shock then {that a} much-trailed replace from Musk laying out the element of his Mars programme scheduled to coincide with the check flight was cancelled.

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File pic: Reuters

He posted shortly after the check, as he sometimes does, about how a lot had been realized from the check flight and the way the programme would ramp up any longer.

Musk’s “fail fast” strategy to rocket growth has been central to SpaceX turning into, by a big margin, essentially the most profitable house launch enterprise in historical past.

Whether or not it is electrical automobiles or rockets, Musk has a status for over-promising on timings however finally delivering era-defining expertise.

However is that this an early signal that relating to Starship, he has lastly reached too far?

The launch initially went as planned - but unravelled about 30 minutes in. Pic: Reuters

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The launch initially went as deliberate – however unravelled. Pic: Reuters

In addition to attempting to beat two spectacular failures of Starship in exams earlier this 12 months, it was the primary try and fly a reused Tremendous Heavy booster. Recycling rockets is what has allowed SpaceX to dominate the launch enterprise with its Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy machines.

It is also important for the industrial viability of the Starship system.

The reconditioned booster carried out virtually completely, in that it delivered Starship to house. But it surely exploded whereas conducting its “landing burn” – not the result engineers attempting to display reusability would have wished.

Other than serving to Donald Trump ship on a promise to place People on Mars throughout his presidency, Musk’s plans for Mars are largely a private undertaking.

However this newest failure could have a wider impression on Musk’s fortunes.

Traders have been left panicking after Musk’s chainsaw-wielding, questionable hand-gesturing detour into US politics.

FILE PHOTO: Elon Musk holds a chainsaw onstage as he attends the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland, U.S., February 20, 2025. REUTERS/Nathan Howard     TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY/File Photo

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Elon Musk holds a chainsaw onstage on the Conservative Political Motion Convention in February. File pic: Reuters

Has his time away from his electrical automotive, house, robotics and AI firms harmed their efficiency?

And whereas Starship is an experimental programme, very separate from the profitable Falcon launch enterprise, is it a viable design and, even whether it is, how a lot of a drain will its fraught testing programme be on the broader firm?

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SpaceX and Starship are central to NASA’s plans to place People again on the moon as quickly as 2030. The actual fact Starship has but to orbit Earth, not to mention land again on it once more, means the US house company should look extra critically to Musk’s opponents like Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin house enterprise to step up.

Musk additionally desires to make use of Starship’s heavy-lifting functionality to win main defence contracts like Trump’s “golden dome” missile defence defend.

It could be a daring investor who would wager towards Musk’s capability to finally bend expertise to his will.

However even the world’s richest man cannot change time, or the legal guidelines of physics, to go well with his ambitions.

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