Loading ...You obviously didn’t watch very carefully. The launch did some damage to the tower that ‘caught’ the booster last time it launched, so the decision was made to dump the first-stage booster in the Gulf of Mexico. The second-stage ‘starliner’ continued sub-orbital to a planned landing in the Indian Ocean. Got that? The rocket comes down in two parts. The starliner was being stress tested with new heat shields, and an extremely hot approach angle, and SpaceX fully expected this to be a ‘destructive test’. That is why they let it sink. They got the data they needed.
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