pjmedia.com By Stephen Green
SpaceX did it again. At 6:23 p.m. local time — eight minutes late, but who’s counting? — the most powerful rocket in history, launched on a column of flame from Starbase, Texas, delivered its second stage to a hot separation, then minutes later made a perfect water landing in the Gulf of America.
Even before the Super Heavy first stage had successfully completed its part of Integrated Flight Test 11 (IFT-11), the Ship second stage’s six engines moved it to near-orbital velocity, initiating a series of flight, deployment, and engine tests before making its own water landing half a world away in the Indian Ocean.
“Starship’s eleventh flight test reached every objective, providing valuable data as we prepare the next generation of Starship and Super Heavy,” the company posted to X, one of SpaceX founder Elon Musk’s other companies…
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