Starship performed very well on Tuesday (Aug. 27), but SpaceX will soon move on from the shiny silver vehicle.

From the current version of it, anyway: The company plans to continue iterating with Starship, which checked all of its boxes during its 10th-ever test flight on Tuesday evening.

SpaceX is developing Starship to help humanity settle Mars, and to achieve that ambitious goal, the megarocket — already the biggest and most powerful launcher ever built — needs to get even larger, according to Elon Musk.

Starship consists of two stainless-steel elements: a huge booster called Super Heavy and an upper-stage spacecraft known as Starship, or Ship for short. Both stages are designed to be fully and rapidly reusable, and both are powered by SpaceX's next-gen Raptor engine.

The current St

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