NASA is paying close attention to the development of Starship, placing the rocket at the center of its flagship moon campaign, known as the Artemis program.
SpaceX’s Starship, the world’s most powerful rocket, lifted off on its fourth test flight on June 6.
The vehicles each fired their engines to slow themselves for soft splashdowns — the booster in the Gulf of Mexico and the spacecraft in the Indian Ocean -- in a step toward the ultimate goal of setting them down on land so they can be reused.Standing nearly 400 feet tall and with 33 engines powering its first stage, Starship took flight from SpaceX’s private spaceport in South Texas at 8:50 a.m.
“Ideally, we expect Starship’s reentry to improve on each flight thanks in part to this wealth of new data,” SpaceX’s Jessie Anderson said during the company’s broadcast of the mission. “But if getting to space is hard, returning from space is even harder.”
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