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SpaceX completes third test launch of Starship, the spaceship longer than a football field

SpaceX has completed its third test launch of Starship, a space rocket longer than a football field that weights 5000 tons.

The third test launch of Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship saw the massive craft successfully reach a suborbital coast before plunging down harmlessly into the Indian Ocean. The test, this time, was designed to show the opening and closing of the payload doors and to reignite its engines in space. Although there are still clearly kinks to be worked out, successfully reaching sub-orbit and completing vital systems tests shows that progress is being made towards the eventual goal of Starship being a reusable craft ready to fly passengers to the moon and beyond.

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