SpaceX starship completes 1st full flight with successful soft splashdown.
Science and Technology
Starship blasted off from the company’s Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, at 7.50am (12:50 GMT), before soaring to space and coasting halfway across the globe. It reached an altitude of nearly 211 kilometers (130 miles), travelling at more than 26,000km/h (16,000mph) before beginning its descent. A live broadcast showed parts of the spacecraft breaking off during the intense heat of reentry, and a chunk of flying debris even cracked the camera lens. The spacecraft remained sufficiently intact to transmit data to its targeted splashdown site in the Indian Ocean.
SpaceX’s Starship rocket has completed its first-ever full flight, after surviving re-entry in a breakthrough for the prototype system that may one day send people to Mars.
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