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SpaceX soars through new milestones in test flight of the most powerful rocket ever built
SpaceX’s Starship launched on its fourth uncrewed flight test Thursday from the company’s private Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas.
About 50 minutes after launch, the spacecraft began its controlled reentry journey, and an incredibly colorful buildup of plasma could be seen around the vehicle as its heat shield faced the extreme temperatures of Earth’s atmosphere. But after a bright halo of red plasma, created by extreme heat and pressure as Starship reentered Earth’s atmosphere, glowed around the vehicle, the team lost communication with the spacecraft. Under the federal space agency’s current road map, Starship would complete the final leg of a crewed mission to the moon, taking the astronauts from a spacecraft in lunar orbit and ferrying them to the surface.
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