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SpaceX starship completes its first return from space, the company finally completed its fourth test flight without exploding after flying it from its development facility in Texas. The test is accomplished on Thursday, June 6, 2024.
From this achievement, the company’s vision is to make more reusable rocket shuttles to send tourists to Mars.
Starship Spacecraft was built as the world’s biggest & most powerful rocket with a huge height of 400 feet, it was the fourth launch for the company which turned out to be the charm for Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX.
The last three demo attempts to space were burned down in explosions leaving the debris on the ground.
Elon Musk congratulated every team member by saying a heartwarming note on X
The Starship rocket recorded a maximum height of 130 miles above sea level at a speed of 16,000 miles per hour. The company released its live footage in which rocket sections separated out while entering space.
The starship is well-connected to the station & transmits all the data to the fixed splashdown site. The starship spacecraft was empty & the booster smoothly set down towards the Gulf of Mexico.
At the same time, the second stage of the rocket able to handle the extremely hot temperature during coming into the earth atmosphere and precisely splashed into the Indian ocean as planned earlier.
The completion of this test is very important for the company as they validate the rocket & reuse it to sending humans to Mars or to provide a spacecraft shuttle to Space Agency like NASA.
Many big officials like Bill Nelson from NASA, and Daniel L. Dumbacher (executive director of the American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics) congratulate Elon Musk & his team for the successful completion of Starship.
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