SpaceX Starship Launches in Key Test for Moon Rocket

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00:00We have liftoff, go Super Heavy, go Starship.

00:03Thanks for all the historic flights, bad one.

00:14Vehicle's catching downrange.

00:20Hoosaraptor, chamber pressure nominal.

00:30All right, we are about 45 seconds into flight.

00:43We're still getting the rattle here at Star Factory.

00:46We are seeing 33 out of 33 Raptor engines lit on Super Heavy as it arcs across the Gulf.

00:52Coming up next on Max-Q.

01:00OK, you're just seeing SpaceX's Starship there lifting off for its 11th test flight.

01:10This is going to be a really powerful test of its capabilities.

01:14The flight path of this ship is expected to look a lot like Flight 10, if all goes according to plan.

01:21But that most recent launch, it took place at the end of August.

01:24The Super Heavy steered itself down to a splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico about 6.5 minutes or six and a half minutes after liftoff.

01:31The ship did the same in the Indian Ocean roughly an hour later.

01:34So that's the path we're expecting this to take today.

01:37As we were saying there, Paul, it is going to be a really important test of its capabilities, stress testing its capabilities.

01:44And really looking at that overall goal, which is to be able to take people to the moon by 2027.

01:51That is the goal in the shorter term.

01:53Elon Musk's longer term vision, though, is taking Starship to Mars.