Space travel: Giant rocket Starship breaks for Earth's orbit
Around the Earth several times in ten hours? That was SpaceX's goal for the 14th test flight of its Starship rocket system - but the plans were changed after the start.
SpaceX's Starship, a massive rocket built by Elon Musk's private space company, has embarked on an extraordinary test flight from a spaceport in Texas. The rocket successfully entered Earth's orbit and was initially planned to orbit the Earth about six times over a 10-hour mission. However, SpaceX announced about an hour after launch that it would bring the Starship back to Earth after just three hours in orbit, with the rocket set to crash into the Pacific Ocean.
The mission also involved deploying Starlink satellites, specifically V3 satellites, which began to unfold their antennas and solar panels and establish connections with Earth and other satellites. 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.
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