SpaceX’s Starship launches its fourth flight check from the corporate’s Boca Chica launchpad, designed to ultimately ship astronauts to the moon and past, close to Brownsville, Texas, U.S. , on this handout image obtained on June 6, 2024. (REUTERS)
American spacecraft producer SpaceX‘s Starship rocket efficiently accomplished its check flight Thursday.
The strongest rocket ever constructed was launched from the personal Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas, at 8.50 a.m. EDT.
Apart from the higher spacecraft, the Starship’s rocket booster is called Super Heavy, which stands 232 toes (70.7 meters) tall with 33 Raptor engines at its base that may produce 16.7 million kilos (8,350 tons) of thrust.
The launch was livestreamed on X, the place SpaceX wrote through the check flight: “Starship’s Raptor engines have ignited during hot-staging separation. Super Heavy is executing the flip maneuver and boostback burn.”
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk later wrote on his account: “Despite loss of many tiles and a damaged flap, Starship made it all the way to a soft landing in the ocean!”
Source: www.anews.com.tr