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This. They have zero reason to reuse an entire vehicle until they have a candidate reusable vehicle. For this test they are reflying an engine on the booster. At a certain point it's worth considering that maybe—just maybe—the dolts working on Staship might actually have some clue what they are doing.

~2 min

Meanwhile, the steamroller continues:

No, that is their composite TPS I think.

Everything being flown right now is a few versions back from their current state of the art. Nothing is a fixed design for them, they iterate on every vehicle.

Ba dum tiss!

in progress

Extended fairing for FH:

Starship has been pushed a few days into next week.