SpaceX launched the third test flight of its Starship rocket on Thursday and reached space, as the company pushed development of the mammoth vehicle past new milestones.
Elon Musk's company launched Starship at about 8:25 a.m. CST from its Starbase facility near Boca Chica, Texas.
The rocket has now flown further than previous tests, with the flight expected to take an hour before it ended in an attempted splashdown in the Indian Ocean. The rocket flew further than previous tests, with the flight lasting about an hour before Starship broke up above the Indian Ocean. The company noted that the vehicle did not splash down in the water, which was the intended ending of the flight.
“We have lost Ship 28,” SpaceX communications manager Dan Huot said on the company’s webcast.
The flight represents a significant step toward SpaceX completing prototype testing and beginning operational Starship launches.
Musk congratulated his company in a post shortly after the launch, announcing that “Starship reached orbital velocity!”
The Starship system is designed to be fully reusable and aims to become a new method of flying cargo and people beyond Earth. The rocket is also critical to NASA’s plan to return astronauts to the moon. SpaceX won a multibillion-dollar contract from the agency to use Starship as a crewed lunar lander as part of NASA’s Artemis moon program.
SpaceX heavily emphasizes an approach of building “on what we’ve learned from previous flights” in its approach to develop Starship. The company says its strategy focuses on “recursive improvement” to the rocket, where even test flights with fiery outcomes represent progress toward its goal of a fully reusable rocket that can deliver people to the moon and Mars.
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Tell me how many valley cititzens were involved in the launch? NONE NOT EVEN GRINGOS WERE INVOLVED, not even afte"WE" gave him all that land and FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.... .PINCHES BABOSOS ELECTED OFFICIALS Y ESE BILLIONAIRE MAMON THAT DON'T LIKE NOBODY FROM EL RGV... FACT
HOW MANY RGV PEOPLE WILL TEL THE CH8LDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN THEY WERE INVOLVED IN THE LAUNCHES? HOW MANY? HOW MANY? NADIEN, NOBODY !!!! HE CAME HERE FOR THE FREE LAND ONLY!!!!!
We have to give free land to the universities to built a school here otherwise they don't come here. BUT WHY????
WHO'S NEXT TO BE ASKING TO GIVEN FREE LAND HERE IN THE RGV stores, tendajos, hospitals, more private schools, maybe new york can open up their government offices here if WE give them FREEEEE LAND!!!
Its no big deal for ALL OF US AT THE RGV if they explode or not we had or have NOTHING TO DO with that welfare business, oh but they want MORE LAND AND FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.............
LOS PENDEJOS DE LA NACION THE RGV PEOPLE!!!!
While I remain unhappy about the location of SpaceX, it was exciting to see the success. It brought back great memories from the 60's when they would pack us into the auditorium, to watch liftoffs. We are the generation who saw the many failures and even deaths of astronauts.
Few remember and ever fewer know. What made Night of the Living dead so scary is it was speculated in the film the astronauts brought something bad. In the day when the astronauts would leave the capsule, they would enter an isolation chamber which was then loaded onto the Navy ship, until they could be cleared.
We have come so far, and todays launch for me brought back the challenges of space.
The robot we just landed on the moon in already sending back data to see if there is water and if it can be made into fuel for launches to Mars. I hope I live long enough to see the first permanent manned station on the moon.
Again, I do not like the location of SpaceX. But the 100-million-dollar development being planned is going to bring in a lot of tax dollars for the county, and so many jobs.
Truckloads of construction material can be seen heading towards SpaceX every day. The demand is so massive Brownsville companies cannot keep up, so a lot of the building materials is coming from the same stores but in other locations.
I’m sure glad it didn’t rapidly disassemble when it wasn’t supposed to.
not one person was hired from the RGV so don't celebrate he only wanted OUR land and the pendejos elected officals gave a billionaire 400 acres FREEEEEEE now he wants more free land and from the poorest area in the USA
GO AHEAD AND CELEBRATE BOLA DE BABOSOS...
All that money that Musk is blowing up down here, plus the kickbacks and the damage to our Boca Chica National Park/Beach. What will we taxpayers got out of this????
The World is a beautiful place and we need to take care of it, not trash it .
rockets made from construction material? I don't see big buildings in that area, and the trucks I've seen going there are not trucks but pickups. typical!
Only gringos support this fail company and the government, of course and any one supported by the property tax payers.
100% taxpayer supported company. puro pinche mamon, and who knows what else.
Tortillas factories supporting this idiota. They pay taxes to give to the rocket mamon WOW!
He didn't pay for the 6 lights that were installed downlown by the city, the tortillas Factores and you and I paid for them. typical gringo mamon!!!
SpaceX wants to launch Starships from Boca Chica nine times in 12 months
what does that mean to US no more boca chica kiss it good bye bye keep giving away free land to billionaires just wait till he builts the white wall from the port to the river cutting off excess to boca chica beach FOREVER
Y LOS PINCHES ELECTED OFFICIALS STILL COUNTING THEIR MOCHIS AT THE CHINA BANKS!!!!
Hey elected officials I want to built a tortilla factory north of brownsville where the gringos live, you think I can get 400 acres but FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!
AND EVERY TIME I LAUNCH THE TORTILLA ROCKET MACHINE I CAN CALL CNN TO COVER THE STORY
do ya al think he pays property taxes? or was he give a tax free for life exemption?
Don't blame the gringo. Blame yourselves for voting into office nothing but corrupt politicians who gave free land to one of the wealthiest men of our country. Musk did his homework and knew we were an easy target. The smartest people live off of the dumbest. Go DEMOCRATS!
Tony la falca said if the rocket explodes the property tax will increase 12%. HEB and walmart said that all their products will also increase. The billionaire wants to remove the downtown lights to sell them he needs more feria...
March 16, 2024 at 9:40 AM
I agree with some of the comments but the overwhelming majority of votes came from the racist republicans, not dems. remember all millionaires and billionaires are RATAS and got rich from the democrat programs. free money and free land and hate meskins and vote racist republicans ALWAYS is their motto.
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