Today’s opportunity turned into a full wet dress rehearsal instead, after some pressure issues were noticed.
Next opportunity will be Wednesday April 19th, 13:00 pm - 14:00 pm UTC
Now scheduled for Thursday April 20th, 13:28 pm - 14:30 pm UTC
It’s nice to see that amongst the chaos and confusion of the modern world, science is there for us, to tackle the really important issues:
T-0:30 seconds … Time recycled, launch on hold!
Back to T-0:40 seconds! (hold can last up to 15 mins max)
… AND CLEARED …here we go!
That was exciting for a couple of minutes. Stage separation failed, and after several spins we finally got our fireworks with a RUD (Rapid (Un)scheduled Disassembly)!!!
As if the flight test was not exciting enough, Starship experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly before stage separation
Teams will continue to review data and work toward our next flight test
With a test like this, success comes from what we learn, and today’s test will help us improve Starship’s reliability as SpaceX seeks to make life multi-planetary
Congratulations to the entire SpaceX team on an exciting first integrated flight test of Starship!
Launch view from the pad (LabPadre)
There used to be concrete?
Yay, full-stack explosion! 
I was worried for a moment that the thing might separate before it goes…
It held up together amazingly well at those speeds as it was tumbling to be honest.
So I am kinda glad I caught covid and was not standing on the beach.
Whoops, image of the wrong calendar! 
Seriously interesting though. The mayans must have been obsessed with numbers to a pytagorean degree to come up with such an intricate numerology.
Japanese company ispace is planning to touch down on the moon at 12:40 p.m. EDT (1640 GMT) on April 25.
(Watching right now) OMG OMG… 
No response after landing yet…
Not sure what the deal is with the moon but there have been so many failed attempts over the years.
While Japan is shooting for the Moon, Sweden is shooting at Norway…
emphasis mine:
According to the SSC, the rocket reached an altitude of 250km (155 miles) and made it into zero gravity, where they have been conducting experiments.
Seriously though BBC, that’s totally not how that works. 
So it says the experiments were carried out…but how? I mean this had to be up and over so quickly. I am confused. 
the crash of a rocket like this was “a very serious incident that can cause serious damage.” We need officials for these kinds of things because we would have never known that on our own.
…and that is why space x was a disaster…
It’s a suborbital rocket for zero-g experiments. I.e. Free Fall. You launch it up as high as you can, you do your experiments while it’s falling back down. All of that went very much according to plan.
It merely didn’t come down where it was supposed to, is all. Maybe they took one page too many out of VonBrauns book… (SpaceX certainly seems to have done just that).
26 Apr, 2023
TOKYO—April 26, 2023—ispace, inc., (ispace) a global lunar exploration company, announced today that the HAKUTO-R Mission 1 Lunar Lander was expected to land on the surface of the Moon at 1:40 am JST on April 26, 2023. At this time HAKUTO-R Mission Control Center in Nihonbashi, Tokyo has not been able to confirm the success of the Lunar Lander.
ispace engineers and mission operations specialists in the Mission Control Center are currently working to confirm the current status of the lander. Further information on the status of the lander will be announced as it becomes available.
26 Apr, 2023
TOKYO—April 26, 2023—ispace, inc., (ispace) a global lunar exploration company, issued an update on the status of the HAKUTO-R Mission 1 Lunar Lander.
The HAKUTO-R Mission 1 Lunar Lander was scheduled to touchdown on the surface of the Moon at approximately 1:40 a.m. JST. As of 8:00 a.m. JST, April 26, 2023, the communication between the lander and the Mission Control Center was lost, although it was expected even after the touchdown, and it has been determined that Success 9 of the Mission Milestones is not achievable.
Based on the currently available data, the HAKUTO-R Mission Control Center in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, confirmed that the lander was in a vertical position as it carried out the final approach to the lunar surface. Shortly after the scheduled landing time, no data was received indicating a touchdown. ispace engineers monitored the estimated remaining propellant reached at the lower threshold and shortly afterward the descent speed rapidly increased. After that, the communication loss happened. Based on this, it has been determined that there is a high probability that the lander eventually made a hard landing on the Moon’s surface.
Running out of gas during the final landing phase. Sucks. But to be fair, Apollo 11 would have shared the same fate if they didn’t have a Neil Armstrong at the helm…
