Starship may have been lost at the last moment, but SpaceX’s Starlink internet held steady as the rocket turned into a fiery ball traveling at 27,000 km/h.
at 8:25 CT from SpaceX’s Starbase facility in southern Texas, the rocket performed hot-staging separation for only the second time.
The rocket also conducted a propellant-transfer demonstration in space. This procedure will be crucial for future missions to the Moon and Mars as it will allow Starship and other vehicles to refuel in orbit. This means SpaceX wasn’t able to perform the first-ever re-light of a Raptor engine. If they had, they would have demonstrated a controlled reentry and a soft splashdown in the Indian Ocean. Instead, the mission ended with a hard splashdown in the same region.All in all, though, the mission was a big success. SpaceX employs an iterative design approach that sees it essentially fail forward with every launch.
To date, the fully-integrated Starship launch system has flown a total of three times. It has flown further on each successive flight test.Though SpaceX lost signal towards the end of IFT-3, the company’s Starlink internet connection held remarkably steady.
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