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didn't achieve all of its goals today; both its first-stage booster, known as Super Heavy, and its upper-stage spacecraft were lost as they came back to Earth, for example. But the megarocket flew faster, farther and longer than it had before, cheering the company and NASA, whose"Congrats to @SpaceX on a successful test flight! Starship has soared into the heavens. Together, we are making great strides through Artemis to return humanity to the moon — then look onward tomission.
"These vehicles are slated for future flight tests just like today's," Siva Bharadvaj, a space operations engineer at SpaceX, said during a webcast of today's launch. SpaceX will aim to get these and future vehicles aloft as quickly as possible, in keeping with the company's"build, fly and iterate" philosophy. Indeed, SpaceX founder and CEOMusk is known for his aggressive timelines, but that one may well be achievable. Seven months elapsed between the first Starship test flight, in. The gap between flight two and today's launch was just four months, so things are moving in the right direction.
And the upper stage reached orbital velocity, opened its payload door in space as it will do on operational, satellite-deploying flights, and survived reentry intofor a while. The ship managed to beam home incredible video of its fiery ordeal before going dark about 50 minutes after liftoff.
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