Starship, SpaceX's massive prototype rocket has launched for its fourth test flight and is now attempting to fly halfway around the globe before splashing down in the Indian Ocean.
SpaceX's giant Starship rocket has survived reentry through Earth's atmosphere and splashed down in the Indian Ocean as planned during its fourth test mission after launching from south Texas.
"Despite loss of many tiles and a damaged flap, Starship made it all the way to a soft landing in the ocean!" SpaceX CEO Elon Musk posted on social media after the splashdown.— SpaceX June 6, 2024 Starship, stacked atop its Super Heavy booster, blasted off this afternoon from the company's Starbase launch site near Boca Chica Village on the Gulf Coast of Texas.
Super Heavy headed back toward land and appeared to achieve a soft landing in the Gulf of Mexico. Starship, meanwhile, blasted its own engines to begin its trek around the globe toward the Indian Ocean, a roughly 70-minute trip. It is due to be used by NASA in the next few years to land the first astronauts on the moon since 1972.
"The main goal of this mission is to get much deeper into the atmosphere during reentry, ideally through max heating," Mr Musk wrote on social media on Saturday.
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