Source: USA Today
“In a year marked early on by a string of explosive failures, SpaceX’s Starship is on track to end 2025 on a high note. The commercial spaceflight company, founded in 2002 by billionaire Elon Musk, launched the gargantuan rocket on a second successful uncrewed test flight in a row …. The launch system vehicle’s lower stage, known as Super Heavy, ignited all of its 33 engines …. Starship’s upper stage, the vehicle where crew and cargo would one day ride, separated within a few minutes of liftoff to fire its own six Raptor engines and continue on its own flight …. the vehicle … deployed mock Starlink internet satellites for the second time in a row and relighted a Raptor engine in space for the third time ever in a necessary maneuver to one day bring a vehicle back to the ground.” (10/14/25)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/10/14/starship-launch-megarocket-spacex/86619615007/