SpaceX's Starship and its Super Heavy booster rocket – the most powerful ever flown – blasted off from south Texas on an uncrewed suborbital test flight and, for the first time, made it to space.
For SpaceX, the third time was the charm. Starship and its Super Heavy booster rocket – the most powerful ever flown – blasted off from south Texas this morning on an uncrewed suborbital test flight and, for the first time, made it to space. Though Starship apparently did not survive reentry, the company considered the mission a success.
’s Saturn moon rockets of the 1960s. Fully stacked, the Starship combination reaches 397 feet high.The rocket is being developed to reduce the cost of launches and possibly take humans to the moon and Mars. plans to use Starship as its lunar lander during the upcoming Artemis missions later this decade, landing astronauts on the moon and then carrying them back up to the Orion capsule.The first Starship launch, back in April 2023, ended with an in-flight explosion just before stage separation. An investigation later determined that leaking fuel lines inside the booster had caught fire, which ultimately led to the loss of communication to the booster engines and control of the rocket.
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