The BelugaX discourse is out of control and KerbTab is here for every frame of it. Three failures. Three distinct failure modes. Stage separation. Engine cascade. Heatshield decouple. That is three different ways to lose a vehicle. Then METEOR - BelugaX-4 - flew clean, ocean recovery, full success. Then NASA put crew on it. TENDING and MUSTER, the two HESTIA crew launches, both used the BelugaX-derived OTS system. Both worked.
KerbTab's ship rankings have been updated as follows: R-SLS5+ (TENDING) remains #1 because it has an abort tower and vibes. OTS-5 (MUSTER) is #2 because it worked and we're being generous. BelugaX as a platform is #3 because it had a 25% success rate before its fourth flight and we cannot in good conscience rank it higher. Unity is unranked because it exploded on its maiden flight (OVERTURE) and then REPRISE flew and got stood down and we're still processing that.
Comment section update: 2,400 comments on the BelugaX ranking post. 40% are arguing we ranked BelugaX too high. 30% are arguing we ranked it too low. 20% are asking why Unity isn't ranked. 10% are a single user named "SSTO_WAS_ROBBED" posting the same sentence 240 times. We see you, SSTO_WAS_ROBBED. Ludcan deserved better. We're not saying that officially. We're saying it in the comments.