SpaceX Starship Returns To Space, But Leaks Nix Critical Tests

SpaceX webcast Caption: Starship returned to space on Flight 9, but lost attitude control, effectively ending the flight test.

Starship returned to space on Flight 9, but lost attitude control, effectively ending the flight test.

Credit: SpaceX webcast
SpaceX recovered from two consecutive failures of its next-generation Starship vehicle with a successful launch May 27 atop a reused Super Heavy booster to reach its planned suborbital trajectory. But less than halfway through its expected 66-min. glide around the planet, the Starship experienced a...
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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