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Sunday,
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SpaceX launched its Flight 5 Starship mission Sunday morning at 7:25 A.M. CDT on a similar suborbital trajectory from previous missions. The big change this time around came in the recovery of the vehicles booster and Starships heat shield for reentry.
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In what is a night-and-day difference from what SpaceX did on
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of Starship, Flight 5s vehicle lifted off from its Boca Chica Beach launch site, completed a successful hot staging, and began flying its booster back to the launch pad.
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Then take what youll see during a
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The booster, known as Booster 12, is now back on the orbital launch mount and is likely to be taken back to the production facility for checkouts. The goal for SpaceXs new recovery system versus using landing legs like those on the Falcon 9 is rapid reusability, being able to turn the booster around in hours or days, not weeks.
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Getting the rocket launched into space and the booster returning were major milestones for Starships development. The
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last-second license for the launch authorized at least one more flight, Flight 6, if it uses the same trajectory. The administration has stated that changes for Flight 6s launch have already been approved, but there is no word on what that might be. So, another launch by the end of the year or early 2026 could be possible.
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For the Starship upper stage, the vehicle successfully flew its flight plan into space, reentered, and splashed down in the Indian Ocean. The ship survived reentry much better this time around, thanks to SpaceXs changes to the heat shield.
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This test went as well as SpaceX could have hoped, and many of us still cant believe the catch worked the first time.
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Now SpaceX will need to focus on operating the Starship upper stage in space, refueling it, landing it back on Earth and the Moon, and learning how to launch dozens of times a day. Nothing a few billion more dollars cant figure out.
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