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spacex is done successfully begins its 11th test flight tech billionaire’s Elon Musk‘s giant starship rocket.
Musk’s aerospace company is attempting to fly a rocket halfway around the world while releasing dummy satellites, as it has done during previous tests.
Starship – the largest and most powerful rocket ever built – thundered into the evening sky from the southern end texas On Monday. The booster was programmed to peel off and drop into gulf of mexicoThe spacecraft takes a tour of space before landing in the Indian Ocean. Nothing was being recovered.
This was the 11th test flight of the full-scale Starship, which Musk intends to send people to Mars, NASA’The need is more urgent. The space agency may not land astronauts on the Moon until the end of the decade without the 403-foot Starship, a reusable vehicle intended to launch them from lunar orbit down to the surface and back up.
Instead of staying inside launch control as usual, Musk said that for the first time, he was going outside to take a look — “much more interior.”
The previous test flight in August – successful after a series of explosive failures – followed a similar path with similar goals. In this time, more maneuverable vehicles were created specifically for spacecraft. SpaceX planned a series of tests during the spacecraft’s entry into the Indian Ocean as practice for future landings at the launch site.
As before, Starship carried eight dummy satellites, mimicking SpaceX’s Starlinks. The entire flight, originating from Starbase near the Mexican border, was scheduled to last just over an hour.
SpaceX is modifying its Cape Canaveral launch sites to accommodate Starship, in addition to the much smaller Falcon rockets used to carry astronauts and supplies to the International Space Station for NASA.
