SpaceX sends Starship spacecraft on first orbital flight
Rocket new generation Starship company SpaceX went on its first orbital flight. The device successfully reached orbit and began the withdrawal of a batch of 26 Starlink V3 satellites, the press service of the company reports.
Rocket new generation Starship company SpaceX went on its first orbital flight. The device successfully reached orbit and began the withdrawal of a batch of 26 Starlink V3 satellites, the press service of the company reports.
Starship launched from the spaceport in Texas on the Gulf Coast near the city of Brownsville at 7:46 local time (15:46 GMT). The rocket will make six orbits around the Earth during a 10-hour flight, and then splash down in the Pacific Ocean west of the coast of Chile.
The reusable Super Heavy rocket put the Starship into orbit and splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico about nine minutes after liftoff. During the flight, one of the 33 engines of the carrier rocket stopped working, but the ship still went into orbit.
Today’s test flight is the 14th for Starship since 2023. Previously, however, they were all limited to the suborbital trajectory. The ship was designed as a reusable rocket to deliver people and heavy cargo to distant space objects.
