SpaceX has plenty of goals when taking its future spaceship on 6-mile-high test flights from Texas but as the company prepares to try again with a new Starship prototype the goal of keeping the shiny prototype in one piece looms large.
CEO Elon Musk said SpaceX is targeting no earlier than Monday to conduct its fourth high-altitude test flight from Boca Chica, Texas using a new Starship spaceship test vehicle.
Serial No. 11, or SN11, will become the latest prototype subject to the same test flight that has destroyed three previous vehicles.
During the test flight, the shiny bullet-shaped ship soars more than 6 miles into the sky after lifting off from the Texas coast then it descended horizontally over the Gulf of Mexico before flipping