SpaceX's mega rocket completes its fourth test flight from Texas without exploding

Associated PressSpaceX's mega rocket Starship launches for a test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, Thursday, June 6, 2024.

"Despite loss of many tiles and a damaged flap, Starship made it all the way to a soft landing in the ocean!" SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said via X. The spacecraft remained intact enough to transmit data all the way to its targeted splashdown site in the Indian Ocean. SpaceX came close to avoiding explosions in March, but lost contact with the spacecraft as it careened out of space and blew up short of its goal. The booster also ruptured in flight, a quarter-mile above the gulf.

Starship is designed to be fully reusable. That's why SpaceX wants to control the booster's entry into the gulf and the spacecraft's descent into the Indian Ocean — it's intended as practice for planned future landings. Nothing is being recovered from Thursday's flight.

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