SpaceX Starship launches banana to space, skips giant rocket catch on 6th test flight (video, photos)

[Admin]

SpaceX launched its Starship megarocket for the sixth time ever today (Nov. 19) but did not try to catch the vehicle's Super Heavy first stage back at the pad.

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[kev72]

Another exciting launch. We can see significant improvements every time. Kudos to the spacex team.

 

[trailrider]

While it would have been nice to have repeated the catch of the booster with the chopsticks, the fact that it made a controlled "soft landing" in the water, and the impressive reentry of the Ship with some of the TPS tiles intentionally removed, and successful relighting of an engine in microgravity conditions makes this flight one more engineering test, which will, no doubt set the stage for further development. Congratulations to the SpaceX team!