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.”

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?

SpaceX has launched over 9,000 satellites into orbit, and the vast majority of them are still in operation today. The company's planning to launch tens of thousands more in an effort to bring Starlink broadband satellite internet to the world,