SpaceX on Friday launched its redesigned Starship and returned it to Earth intact, in a successful test of the rocket that will underpin a $1.75tn initial public offering next month and, one day, Elon Musk’s ambitions to reach Mars.
Onlookers including Nasa administrator Jared Isaacman watched from the company’s Starbase facility in southern Texas in the early evening as 33 raptor engines powered the 408-foot-tall rocket into space.
In its inaugural flight, the heavily redesigned V3 version of the Starship cruised into sub-orbit before deploying nearly two dozen dummy and test satellites even as one of the six engines on the rocket’s upper stage failed.
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