SpaceX Starship Program Is Back On Track After Textbook Flight 10

SpaceX Starship-Super Heavy rocket

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...
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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