SpaceX chief Elon Musk said on Monday that the Starship rocket will make its 10th test flight in August. Musk made the announcement in a post on X, saying, “Starship launches again next month.”

On February 2, SpaceX conducted another flight test of the Starship interplanetary transport system, designed to revolutionize space travel. During a test jump of 32,808 feet, the SN9 prototype successfully launched,

No one doubts that rocket tests mean failures, but the question for Starship is this: Is it just having extended teething pains, or are its failures a symptom of a fundamentally unworkable design that will never be fixed?