“The rocket took off with only 30 of the 33 Raptor engines ignited at the base of the Super Heavy booster.”
Starship lost steering 85 seconds in, and the self-destruct system took about 40 seconds to do its job. Musk calls that roughly what he expected, maybe slightly better. He puts orbit this year at 80% and within 12 months at 100%. A $2 billion budget buys a lot of confidence, and none of it lands on schedule.