Lauren Grush
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42 appearances
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first heard May 2026
last heard 26 May
Lauren Grush’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I would say that it was a largely successful debut of the vehicle.
As you mentioned, this was a completely redesigned version of Starship.
Mainly, it had a lot of new upgrades, new Raptor engines that were supposed to significantly increase the thrust at liftoff.
It also had a number of upgrades to help with the reusability that they're after.
And so, by and large, it was a successful test.
There were some uncomfortable moments, for instance, that super.
heavy booster which you can see climbing and sending starship to space.
Once it's separated it was supposed to do a controlled splashdown or landing in the Gulf and that didn't quite work as planned.
It kind of spun out of control at one point and then seemed to break apart.
And then also there was an engine out on Starship.
So just a few moments where it did not go to c go to plan.
It was a little bit incomplete.
But I think it was by and large a a really successful mission for the debut of this upgraded version of the vehicle.
Yeah, I would say we're still marching forward.
There are still some kinks to work out.
For instance, you know, the big thing about Starship is that it's supposed to be fully reusable.
That's never been done before.
And so that problem that they had with the super heavy booster, not doing that controlled landing complicates that on the path to that full reusability.
But as they demonstrated during this mission, they were able to uh deploy satellites.
satellites like they had planned they were dummy satellites but they did demonstrate that that could work.
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