The guy ended his article with good old-fashioned journalistic objectivity:
With these upgrades, Starship V3 is poised for an epic test flight that could accelerate humanity’s multiplanetary future. The rapid pace of iteration underscores SpaceX’s relentless drive toward making life multiplanetary. Launch watchers are in for a spectacular show.
I for one have been hoping, almost praying, that Starship works and fulfills the goal of finally making large scale space cargo available at something less than billionaire’s-yacht prices; and wringing my hands over every delay and disappointment. So I can sympathize with a little boosterism.
Inner quote from the article @Darren_Garrison was referring to.
That very last bit I excerpted is a pretty safe bet with any rocket launch. It’ll either go spectacularly nominal, or spectacularly off-nominal. Rockets that big are spectacular no matter what happens when you light the fuze. 
But yeah, the rest of that paragraph was the author buttering up his sources in hopes of continued access.
A look at Starship’s troubled development and the current state of hopes and fears for both it and SpaceX as a whole:
SpaceX’s newest version of its massive Starship, the world’s largest and most powerful rocket, is now scheduled to launch its critical test flight no earlier than Thursday, May 21, at 6:30 p.m. EDT (2230 GMT) from Starbase, Texas,.
SpaceX’s internal accounting finally released in preparation for the IPO.
If nothing else I think this will rebut critics who claimed that SpaceX and Falcon 9 were essentially a pyramid scheme offering artificially low launch prices.
I don’t think that’s the primary takeaway from that filing.
The primary takeaway is that this is just more AI hogwash.
“We believe we have identified the largest TAM in human history,” the company states on page 171 of the filing. “We believe our next trillion-dollar market is AI compute, which we contemplate will leverage our rockets and satellites for massive orbital deployment.”
TAM is ‘total addressable market’, which the filing projects as being comprised of $370B space launch services, $1.6T Starlink, and $26T in AI. That is, SpaceX’s IPO filing projects that SpaceX’s heretofore core business is barely relevant to their projected future business.
The whole thing seems to be little more than “AI is going to be worth a kazillion dollars so invest all your money in us or live with the regret of missing out for the rest of your life.”
Things like this make me question my belief in investing in broad market index funds.
Although supposedly planning for SpaceX to launch orbital data centers does tie in with promoting AI as the next big terabuck thing to revolutionize the global economy.
Except that orbital data centers are an absolutely boneheaded idea. The only benefit to putting a data center in orbit is that you can use solar power for it constantly. That’s at best a factor of two improvement, even if launch costs and so on were completely free. Meanwhile, it’s an immense pain to dump waste heat in space, typically a higher cost than the power input.
If you really want a data center that runs 100% of the time on solar power, just build two of them, at opposite longitudes on the Earth.
Speaking of SpaceX, launch scheduled for 30 minutes from now.
Scrub.
Did Musk command a hold on the launch just so he could shill??
Launched. No RUD but both stages lost an engine.
GODDAMN, I missed the launch because SpaceX was the ONLY feed that didn’t show it!!!
I watched it here.
Well, it launched. But it seems that the booster relight didn’t happen… uncontrolled booster re-entry, then, I guess? Deliberate? Not a good step towards reusability.
Lost a ship engine and scrapped orbital relight test. Not really looking very optimal so far…
The feed I was watching was talking about the booster not relighting, but then talking about they didn’t plan a recovery anyway, so I wasn’t sure if things were going according to plan or not.
True, they did say they weren’t planning a booster catch this time, so maybe they didn’t bother trying for a soft booster landing anyway. Not clear from what was announced?
Well, looks as if it made it through re-entry without too much damage, unlike some earlier tests.
Still suffered an RUD at sea impact though… they are going to have to address that.
Overall, a 70% success, perhaps?
Explosion after toppling into the sea after a soft landing is 100% expected, and not something that needs addressing. There’s basically zero chance of the remaining fuel not going boom when Starship topples over after the cutting the engines. The solution to this is simply landing on a barge or landing pad.