SpaceX launches Starship on giant rocket's first flight to orbit
SpaceX launched the company's Super Heavy-Starship on its first flight to orbit Monday, a major step toward perfecting the world's most powerful rocket for commercial flights and NASA moon missions.
One of the Starship upper stage's six Raptor engines shut down early during the climb to an initially suborbital trajectory. After assessing telemetry, Elon Musk's flight control team decided the spacecraft was otherwise healthy and a second engine firing using a single Raptor engine completed the climb to orbit.
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