SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket blasted off Tuesday night in its 10th test flight — after having to abort the mission two days in a row and following repeated fiery mishaps that ended with the spacecraft exploding in the air.
The 400-foot-tall Starship rocket finally took off from SpaceX’s Starbase facility in Texas at 7:30 p.m. EST after being stalled by inclement weather on Monday and an issue with its ground systems on Sunday.
The Starship’s voyage soared a couple of hundred kilometers above Earth as it successfully detached its boosters and distributed all eight dummy satellites for the first time since the ninth test’s fiery descent. 4
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) cleared the way for the latest test to proceed following a probe of the ninth launch, which saw th