16 Takeaways From the Explosive Second Test of SpaceX’s Starship Megarocket

Starship pierced through clear south Texas skies on Saturday morning , for what turned out to be an eight - minute - long mission . The megarocket failed once again , but SpaceX achieved significant progress in various decisive mission objectives .

It sounds counterintuitive , but SpaceX improves its vehicle through failure . WhileSaturday ’s launchmight not have met our full expectations , it will surely yield a trove of data point that will aid SpaceX in further advancing its groundbreaking rocket technology . The launch , as expect , also produced some arresting visuals . Here are some of our favorite figure of speech from the IFT-2 commission , and what we noticed during this authoritative second flying test .

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A stunning photo of Starship during hot staging.