Starship’s Super Heavy Booster landing burn and soft splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico June 6, 2024

Starship’s Super Heavy Booster landing burn and soft splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico !!

Starship survives reentry during fourth test flight

Test Flight 4 Starship Heavy 1st stage slashdown landing in the Gulf of New Mexico on June 6, 2024. The upper stage landed later in the Indian Ocean

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX conducted the fourth test flight of its Starship launch system June 6, with both the Super Heavy booster and Starship upper stage making it back to the surface intact.

The vehicle lifted off at 8:50 a.m. Eastern from the company’s Starbase test site at Boca Chica, Texas. The ascent appeared to go as planned other than the failure of one of 33 Raptor engines in the Super Heavy booster to ignite.

During the booster’s final phase of descent, it reignited three Raptor engines for a landing burn. This allowed the booster to make a “landing” in the Gulf of Mexico, reducing its velocity to zero at the ocean surface before toppling over. Achieving that landing was a major priority for the mission

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