Watch SpaceX's Starship come down for nighttime splashdown during epic test flight (video)

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A new video shows the upper stage of SpaceX's Starship coming down for a nocturnal splashdown during its fifth test flight.

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[HobartStinsonian]

A million kudos to SpaceX and Elon. They are blazing new trails to space travel. Congratulations on flight 5. One correction to their tweet. The flap(s) obviously burned through again during the reentry. Rapid reusability will take more technology development of the heat shield where the seals fit into the gap for the flaps. NASA’s space shuttle orbiter used ablative panels in the gaps of the body flap. I suspect Starship won’t make that region of the heat shield fully and rapidly reusable. SpaceX - prove me wrong (again).