Starship Flight 10 was a huge success for SpaceX. As both Super Heavy Booster and Starship Upper Stage successfully landed on their designated splashdown zones, the room community celebrated.
The largest and most powerful rocket in the world had successfully completed its tenth test flight. And this time there were no quick unplanned separations during the mission.
According to SpaceX in a statement after aircraft 10, “Any main goal was met, which provided critical data to inform the design of the next generation’s star ship and super heavy.” The private space company also stated that Flight 10 provided valuable data by emphasizing the limits of Starship’s capacity.
With all Flight 10’s mission target, one would think it would be pretty easy to cover the story of Starship’s successful tenth test flight. But this is where one would be wrong because Elon Musk companies, whether Tesla or SpaceX or Xai, tend to attract negative oblique from mainstream media.
This was in full strength with Starship Flight 10’s coverage. Roof BBC‘S Facebook post about the combat test that read “Elon Musk’s gigantic rocket, earmarked for use in a 2027 mission to the moon, has had several disastrous failures in previous launches.” Cnn Was more direct with its oblique, writing “SpaceX’s troubled star scam prototype draws a successful flight after months of explosive mishaps” on its headline.
While some media obviously adopted a negative slope against Starship’s Flight 10 results, several other media sources actually published surprisingly positive articles on the successful test flight. The most notable is without a doubt New York TimesThere included a headline that read “Spacex’s Giant Mars Rocket ends almost flawless test flight.” Fox News Also ran with a particularly positive headline that read “SpaceX succeeds at the third Starship Test Flight attempt after several scrubs.”
After covering Elon Musk-related companies in the better part of a decade now, I have learned that mainstream coverage of any of his businesses tend to be sprinkled with varying degrees of negative oblique. The reasons behind this may never be fully explained, but it’s just as things are. This is why when milestones like Starship’s Flight 10 actually happen, and mainstream media coverage becomes somewhat lens, I can’t help but be amazed.
After all, it takes a heck of a company led by a heck of a leader to force objectivity on a device that has proven to be subjective over the years. And that, if someone is all the proof you might need about the undeniable success of Starship Flight 10.