SpaceX has completed a mostly successful fourth test of its revolutionary new Starship rocket, a key step toward returning humans to the Moon and, maybe one day, landing on Mars.
The flight, integrated flight test 4 (IFT-4), lifted off today from SpaceX’s Boca Chica test site in Texas at 7:50 am Central time. Standing 233 feet (71 meters) tall, the rocket and its 33 methane-fueled Raptor engines roared to life, raising Starship—the largest rocket in history—into the sky over the Gulf of Mexico from the test site, called Starbase.
“Today’s test was the clearest success to date,” says Abhi Tripathi, a former mission director at SpaceX and now an aerospace engineer
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