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The sixth launch of SpaceX’s giant Starship rocket Tuesday did not deliver a booster catch but did send a plush banana around the world. Barely a month after the fifth flight test that featured Starship’s slowly descending first stage being snagged by massive metal arms on its launch tower, another Starship’s 33 Raptor engines lit […]
The biggest and most powerful rocket ever built now has a half-dozen launches under its belt. SpaceX‘s 400-foot-tall (122 meters) Starship megarocket lifted off for the sixth time ever today (Nov. 19), rising off the orbital launch mount at the company’s Starbase site in South Texas at 5:00 p.m. EST (2200 GMT; 4:00 p.m. local […]