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WASHINGTON — Elon Musk"s SpaceX launched its 11th Starship rocket from Texas on Monday and landed it in the Indian Ocean, the last flight before the company begins test-launching a new version of the giant rocket outfitted with more features for moon and Mars missions.
Starship, which includes the Starship upper stage stacked atop its Super Heavy booster, launched at 6:23 p.m.
CT (2323 GMT) from SpaceX"s Starbase facilities.
After sending the Starship stage to space, Super Heavy returned for a soft water landing in the Gulf of Mexico 7 minutes after liftoff, testing a landing engine configuration before blowing itself up.
Its last mission, in August, ended a streak of testing failures earlier this year.
Monday"s flight was similar to the previous one, again deploying a batch of mock Starlink satellites, briefly re-lighting its engines in space and testing new heat shield tiles during its blazing hot return from space before splashing down west of Australia.
Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy said on X the mission was "another major step toward landing Americans on the Moon’s south

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