[bhouston]

> They've blown up 11 Starships without any of them making it to orbit.

They purposely were not trying for orbit from my understanding. The last one did orbit the earth at suborbital heights and release satellites. It did seem to do what they wanted it to do, it wasn't a failure.

[delichon]

Not only were they not trying to reach orbit, they are specifically trying to do risky things that they can learn from. It's not exactly destructive testing because they hope to succeed, but it's close.

[UltraSane]

That just seems like a huge waste of money

[freejazz]

Easy not to fail when you are purposefully not trying to succeed

[verzali]

I doubt they set out to launch eleven times without reaching orbit.

[ThrowawayTestr]

They very explicitly were not setting out for orbit for most of them.