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SpaceX
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Nov 16
Watch Starship's sixth flight test → spacex.com/launches/mission/… x.com/i/broadcasts/1RDGlydZA…

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Starship's Sixth Flight Test
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With data and flight learnings as our primary payload, Starship’s sixth flight test once again delivered → spacex.com/launches/mission/…
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Elon Musk
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3h
Successful ocean landing of Starship! We will do one more ocean landing of the ship. If that goes well, then SpaceX will attempt to catch the ship with the tower.
SpaceX
 @SpaceX
5h
Splashdown confirmed! Congratulations to the entire SpaceX team on an exciting sixth flight test of Starship!
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Splashdown confirmed! Congratulations to the entire SpaceX team on an exciting sixth flight test of Starship!
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Starship preparing to splash down in the Indian Ocean
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Live views of Earth from Starship
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Live views brought to you by @Starlink
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Starship has successfully ignited one of its Raptor engines while in space for the first time
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Starship is ~30 minutes into its sixth fight test and all systems continue to look nominal
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Starship’s Raptor engine burn is complete and Starship has entered a coast phase
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Super Heavy initiates its landing burn and softly splashes down in the Gulf of Mexico
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Super Heavy is proceeding to a landing burn and splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico
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Starship’s Raptor engines have ignited during hot-staging separation
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Starship has cleared the pad! Vehicle is on a nominal flight path
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Liftoff of Starship!
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Propellant loading complete. Starship is fully loaded with more than 4,500 metric tons (10 million pounds) of propellant
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We recently tested heatshield materials in a simulated Martian atmosphere as we aim to launch the first Starships to Mars in 2026
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Starship will be used to land astronauts on the lunar surface on NASA's Artemis III mission, which will put the first humans on the Moon since 1972
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Super Heavy will generate a sonic boom upon return, which is a brief, thunder-like noise we hear when an aircraft or other object travels faster than the speed of sound
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Starship and Super Heavy’s 39 Raptor engines are chilling down in preparation for liftoff
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Starship’s flight trajectory
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