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SpaceX Took a Big Step Toward Reusing Starship’s Super Heavy Booster


A successful reflight of SpaceX's Super Heavy booster would be an important milestone for its Starship program.

SpaceX is having trouble with Starship's upper stage after back-to-back failures, but engineers are making remarkable progress with the rocket's enormous booster. The most visible sign of SpaceX making headway with Starship's first stage—called Super Heavy—came at 9:40 am local time (10:40 am EDT; 14:40 UTC) Thursday at the company's Starbase launch site in South Texas. A successful reflight of the Super Heavy booster would be an important milestone for the Starship program, while engineers struggle with problems on the rocket's upper stage, known simply as the ship.

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