SpaceX Nails Super Heavy Landing, Ship Nearly Makes It Intact

Irene Klotz June 06, 2024
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Credit: SpaceX
SpaceX’s launched its fourth Starship-Super Heavy integrated flight test (IFT) on June 6, with the booster completing a full-duration mission for the first time with a successful soft splashdown in the ocean, while a battered Starship continued to relay data through its landing burn. With 32 of its...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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