SpaceX accomplishes first soft splashdown of Starship, Super Heavy Booster on Flight 4 mission

 

SpaceX accomplishes first soft splashdown of Starship, Super Heavy Booster on Flight 4 mission

For the fourth time in just over a year, SpaceX launched a test mission of its massive Starship rocket from its Starbase development facility in southern Texas. The launch, dubbed Flight 4, marks another step towards making the launch vehicle mostly reusable...more


As with the previous three launches, Flight 4 did not include a payload and followed a suborbital trajectory. However, unlike the earlier missions, Flight 4 achieved a soft splashdown of both the Super Heavy Booster (Booster 11) and the Starship upper stage (Ship 29). Liftoff occurred at 7:50 a.m. CDT (8:50 a.m. EDT, 1250 UTC), near the opening of a 120-minute window..more 

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