SpaceX's Starship rocket spotted from space ahead of key test flight (satellite photo)

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SpaceX's Starship rocket spotted from space ahead of key test flight (satellite photo)
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Maxar Technologies' WorldView-1 satellite captured a great view of the giant vehicle on the launch pad.

As Maxar noted in that Thursday X post, the Ship 25-Booster 9 duo are being prepped for liftoff in the near future — the second ever for the Starship program.from Starbase. It aimed to send the upper stage partway around Earth, culminating in a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii. But the vehicle suffered several problems, including the failure of its two stages to separate as planned, and SpaceX beamed up a self-destruct command not long after launch.

The goals of the upcoming second flight will be similar to those of the first, SpaceX founder and CEO

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