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The largest, most powerful launch vehicle ever built is meant to be a key part of SpaceX’s plans to send humans to Mars—and NASA’s plans to return astronauts to the moon, too
Much was riding on Flight 9 for Elon Musk’s giant moon and Mars rocket after debris from January and March flights fell into the Atlantic Ocean, disrupting air travel.
The consecutive failures may have decreased the likelihood SpaceX can meet NASA’s goal of landing on the moon in 2027, experts said.
SpaceX launched Starship Tuesday, May 27 on its first test flight since March. This time, the vehicle further than the previous two flights.
SpaceX's prototype Starship exploded over the Indian Ocean on Tuesday, capping another bumpy test flight for the rocket central to billionaire Elon Musk's dream of colonizing Mars.
The final concept, which was unveiled in 2019, consisted of a Starship composed of stainless steel instead of carbon fiber (per the original proposal), with reusable heat shield tiles on the windward side (similar to the Space Shuttle).
Physicists who record rocket launches and landings are learning important facts about the acoustics of spaceflight.
The Starship blasted off from SpaceX’s launch site, Starbase, Texas, but experienced a “rapid unscheduled disassembly.” It was the ninth test flight to fail for Elon Musk’s
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