SpaceX, Starship and flight
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SpaceX closed a troubled but instructive chapter in its Starship rocket program Monday with a near-perfect test flight that carried the stainless steel spacecraft halfway around the world from South Texas to the Indian Ocean.
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Watch a charred SpaceX Starship land in the ocean after acing Flight Test 11 (video)
New videos give us multiple angles of Ship's Flight 10 splashdown, and they show us the toll that reentry took on the vehicle.
SpaceX's Starship is back at the launch pad for its 11th flight test, hoping to duplicate the success of its August flight while adding new challenges.
Watch SpaceX doused a steel plate with water and then blast Raptor engine fire into it. The private spaceflight company's Super Heavy and Starship rockets are powered by 39 total Raptor engines combined.