Space travel: Giant rocket Starship sets off on multiple Earth orbits
Around the Earth several times in ten hours? That is what the spaceflight company SpaceX has set out to do for the 14th test flight of its Starship rocket system.
SpaceX's Starship rocket, founded by Elon Musk, has embarked on an extraordinary test flight from a spaceport in Texas. The mission, which was expected to last around ten hours, involved the rocket entering Earth's orbit and circling the Earth about six times. According to SpaceX, the rocket successfully entered orbit and also deployed Starlink satellites, known as V3 satellites, which began to unfurl their antennas and solar panels.
This was the 14th test flight of the Starship, which is larger than the Statue of Liberty and consists of two reusable parts: the Super Heavy booster and the upper Starship stage. The US space agency NASA plans to use the Starship to send astronauts to the Moon, while SpaceX aims to reach Mars in the future.
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