No attempt at a Starship catch tomorrow.

Not surprised really. I mean the block 2 Starship hasn't even made orbit yet.

Scrub for the day - next window tomorrow.

48 hour slip - now targeting the same time on Wednesday.

SpaceX: ”The eighth flight test of Starship is preparing to launch as soon as Wednesday, March 5. The launch window will open at 5:30 p.m. CT.”

Really must drop Elon an email and point out that these late (GMT) launches are not convenient and the slips in the launch window are just not on. Push the damn red button and see what happens - that's what "Hardware rich development" means :E

Musk about the scrub....

Too many question marks about this flight and then we were 20 bar low on ground spin start pressure. Best to destack, inspect both stages and try again in a day or two.

Launch now expected tomorrow around 23:30 GMT.

Everybody in the Caribbean running for cover.

They'd safed the FTS from the feed. Wonder if there's the option to un-safe it again?!

Why cant they report in the English Language? This is gibberish "a rapid unscheduled disassembly"

Blame the lawyers. Explosion becomes 'rapid unscheduled disassembly' - fire becomes 'rapid oxidation', a broken cable now has 'separated'.

Footage of SpaceX’s Starship breaking up on reentry over the Bahamas and West Indies.

Discussion of possible RUD causes….

I think they had their tongue in their cheek when they came up with that one. See also "Falcon Heavy", I bet it is.

I used to describe a situation as "Failure Under Continual Test" ......or FUCT.

It's an in joke. Fan boys and Musk have been using it for years with tongue firmly in cheek.
Lighten up!

Cannot remember that many Apollo's blowing up. Had issues, yes, in all the tests, but not like Musks lot.

The Saturn V has the rather unique claim that it never experienced a failure that prevented the payload from reaching earth orbit. No other US launch system with more than 10 launches can make that claim.
What Musk and company is doing is much closer to what the US did with the Atlas - launch one, see what fails, fix it and try again. Similar to Starship, Atlas's were mass-produced (I think total production was over a thousand).
Even after the Atlas was man-rated for the Mercury program, the failure rate was not low - around 25% - NASA was somewhat fortunate that four manned Mercury-Atlas launches were successful.
Obviously Starship will need to get far better reliability than that before they can think of man-rating it.

Just stumbled across this - puts things into perspective a bit:

Von Braun was lucky.