SpaceX launches huge Starship rocket into orbit on third test flight, but loses spacecraft on its return to Earth

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SpaceX launches huge Starship rocket into orbit on third test flight, but loses spacecraft on its return to Earth
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SpaceX’s next-generation mega rocket launched Thursday morning, thundering into orbit on a key test flight meant to demonstrate new technologies and…

In the rocket’s most ambitious test flight yet, it achieved two milestones: Starship successfully reached orbit and reentered Earth’s atmosphere for the first timeSpaceX’s next-generation mega rocket launched Thursday morning, thundering into orbit on a key test flight meant to demonstrate new technologies and techniques that will be crucial on future missions to the moon and beyond.

“This is the furthest and fastest that Starship has ever flown,” SpaceX officials said during their live broadcast of the event.However, early data suggests the spacecraft was lost while it returned to Earth, before it reached the splash down in the Indian Ocean that SpaceX had hoped for.Although SpaceX adjusted the targeted liftoff time on Thursday morning, Starship’s launch got off to a smooth start.

SpaceX also intended to fire one of Starship’s Raptor engines while in space, but it ultimately opted to skip that portion.

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