SpaceX successfully launches Starship in third flight test

The third Starship test flight has fared far better than SpaceX’s previous two attempts. | Image: SpaceX SpaceX’s massive Starship took off from the company’s Starbase launch facility in Boca Chica, Texas, at 9:25AM ET on Thursday morning. Unlike its two predecessors, it has stayed in one piece and is continuing to fly on its way to a planned splashdown in the Indian Ocean.
So far, it has completed the hot-staging separation from its Super Heavy booster and opened a payload doo