Remember this one?
The spectacular event saw the towering 165-foot stainless steel rocket ignite its three Raptor engines to launch itself into the air. One of its three massive Raptor engines appeared to extinguish toward the craft's apogee. Roughly a minute later, another Raptor engine gave out. It's still unclear whether either was intentional.shifting on to its side to slow its descent back to the surface.
It was an incredible sight to behold. The prototype seemed to hover in place as it used its "belly" to slow its descent. Side thrusters allowed it to right itself again for a soft landing. Even though it recovered to a near-horizontal position and slowed considerably, though, the impact with the ground looked harder than intended and two internal cameras gave out as an external view showed a sizeable explosion. Wreckage of the craft's nosecone could be seen afterward.of previous Starship prototypes, sending them to just shy of 500 feet earlier this year.
The Elon Musk-led company has big plans for the massive spacecraft. Starship is designed from the ground up to
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