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SpaceX's Starship launches from the company's Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas on its third integrated flight test on March 14, 2024.from its Starbase manufacturing and launch facility near Boca Chica Beach in South Texas.
"Starship will take humanity to Mars," SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wrote in a post on X accompanying this image of Starship's third test flight on March 14, 2024.All 33 of Super Heavy's Raptor engines remained lit throughout the first stage of Starship's test flight.
The turnaround for Starship's next test flight could be much shorter than the wait between number two and today's flight, given how many milestones SpaceX was able to achieve. There was a seven-month span between the first test flight and the second, and just four months between the second and today's third flight.Starship soars on its third test flight above Boca Chica, Texas on March 14, 2024.Neither Starship nor the vehicle's Super Heavy booster survived today's test.
The vehicle was expected to splash down in the Indian Ocean some 65 minutes after liftoff, but contact was lost during reentry.
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