On its third try, a SpaceX Starship-Super Heavy rocket lifted off from the southern tip of Texas on Aug. 26, kicking off a 66-min. suborbital flight test.
Credit: SpaceX
Iteration in action is sometimes hard to witness. Three times this year, SpaceX tried to test changes to its Starship-Super Heavy launch system, only to uncover other, more pressing issues that needed to be resolved first. Nine months and four lost Starships later, SpaceX finally collected key...
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