SpaceX has successfully launched the massive Starship rocket for the eighth time.
The latest flight test of the most powerful rocket ever to fly got underway from SpaceX’s Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas, at about 5:30 p.m. CT on Thursday, March 7.
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Minutes after launch, the first-stage Super Heavy booster returned to the launch tower where it was secured by two giant mechanical arms. This is the third time for SpaceX to achieve the feat, and allows the company to reuse the booster for future missions.
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At the time of writing, the upper-stage Starship spacecraft is still in flight ahead of what SpaceX hopes will be a controlled splashdown in the Indian Ocean. SpaceX has done this before, but in the last flight test in January the Starship failed to make it to the Indian Ocean after an anomaly caused it to break up over the Caribbean.
