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(NewsNation) — SpaceX is making another attempt to motorboat its Super Heavy Starship rocket aft a scrubbed effort Sunday evening.
The 11th effort to motorboat the afloat reusable rocket volition hap astatine 7:30 p.m. ET arsenic SpaceX hopes to reconstruct assurance successful the Starship.
There person been multiple failures successful the effort to beryllium the rocket tin present connected the committedness of carrying larger payloads astatine a little cost.
The rocket's occurrence is besides captious to NASA's efforts to enactment humans connected the satellite erstwhile again and enactment to make a beingness determination to service arsenic a jumping-off constituent for deeper abstraction exploration.
The spacecraft weighs successful astatine 400 pounds and has 33 engines. During the trial flight, the rocket volition motorboat into the densest portion of Earth's atmosphere.
At 2 minutes and 28 seconds, the Super Heavy booster volition detach and simulate a landing implicit the Gulf of Mexico. The Starship volition proceed up to orbital velocities and past reenter implicit the Indian Ocean.
The Starship volition deploy mock Starlink satellites during the ngo and is expected to test-fire an motor portion successful space.
