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Ed Ludlow on SpaceX rocket launch
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2:58Now PlayingSpaceX’s upgraded Starship successfully deployed mock satellites and returned to Earth largely unscathed, though its booster spun out of control and broke apart over the Gulf of Mexico.
The gigantic rocket’s twelfth major test flight was a successful, if slightly rough and incomplete, debut of the vehicle, which is critical to Elon Musk’s efforts to scale his rocket business into an artificial intelligence and satellite communications empire.
The two-tier rocket system, made up of the Super Heavy Booster and the Starship spacecraft, thundered off the launchpad at SpaceX’s Starbase facility in South Texas at 5:30 p.m. local time on Friday. A few minutes into the flight, the Super Heavy booster separated from the Starship spacecraft as planned. But the booster didn’t perform an expected engine burn and fell out of control as it came back to the Gulf of Mexico.
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