Tweet of the Day, This Is Why You Test edition.

My wife has gently explained to me that this was not a successful test.

One of the engines never lit and there wasn't enough thrust to stop in time: pic.twitter.com/BvkPHGIy5l

— Scott Manley (@DJSnM) February 2, 2021

Still: at least they now know they’ve got a problem with the engines not lighting off properly when trying to land the rocketship. Maybe not the exact same problem, but SN8 and SN9 definitely had the same sort of problem. I mostly expect SN10 to do the exact same thing, and that will continue until suddenly somebody figures out what happened and then the rocketships don’t blow up on landing anymore.