'Starship is ready to launch, awaiting FAA license approval,' Elon Musk said.
, on a test flight from Starbase that aimed to send the upper stage partway around Earth, with a planned splashdown in the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii.
That vehicle suffered several problems shortly after launch, however, including the failure of its first and second stages to separate. As a result, SpaceX beamed up a self-destruct command, detonating the craft high above the Gulf of Mexico four minutes after liftoff.to this second Starship vehicle. Perhaps the most prominent is the switch to a"hot staging" strategy, in which the upper stage lights its engines before it has fully separated from the first-stage booster.
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