SpaceX just launched Starship V3 — its most powerful megarocket yet — into **** e for the 1st time in spectacular Flight 12 test (video)
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The most powerful rocket in history just roared off its launch pad in a spectacular show of power and technology.
SpaceX launched the newest version of its giant Starship rocket Friday (May 22), from a recently completed second pad at its Starbase manufacturing and test facility in South Texas. Liftoff occurred at 6:30 p.m. EDT (2230 GMT), sending the massive 408-foot-tall (124-meter) vehicle skyward on its 12th suborbital test flight.
It was the first Starship mission since October 2025, and the first-ever flight of Starship Version 3 (V3), a next-generation build of the rocket that features a complete design overhaul meant to evolve the vehicle toward operational missions. And today's suborbital Flight 12 was a significant step toward that ambitious goal, even if it was a day later than planned after a glitched thwarted a first launch try on Thursday.
"Congratulations **** eX team on an epic first Starship V3 launch & landing!," **** eX CEO Elon Musk wrote on X after the launch. "You scored a goal for humanity."
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The most powerful rocket in history just roared off its launch pad in a spectacular show of power and technology.
SpaceX launched the newest version of its giant Starship rocket Friday (May 22), from a recently completed second pad at its Starbase manufacturing and test facility in South Texas. Liftoff occurred at 6:30 p.m. EDT (2230 GMT), sending the massive 408-foot-tall (124-meter) vehicle skyward on its 12th suborbital test flight.
It was the first Starship mission since October 2025, and the first-ever flight of Starship Version 3 (V3), a next-generation build of the rocket that features a complete design overhaul meant to evolve the vehicle toward operational missions. And today's suborbital Flight 12 was a significant step toward that ambitious goal, even if it was a day later than planned after a glitched thwarted a first launch try on Thursday.
"Congratulations **** eX team on an epic first Starship V3 launch & landing!," **** eX CEO Elon Musk wrote on X after the launch. "You scored a goal for humanity."
https://tech.yahoo.com/sci...
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