The Super Heavy booster rocket of the Starship spacecraft successfully returned to its launch pad in the Gulf of Mexico, the US company SpaceX said on Wednesday during its sixth test launch.
“Super Heavy activates landing thrust and falls gently into the Gulf of Mexico.” — said the company on the social network X.
Previously, SpaceX carried out the sixth test launch of the Starship spacecraft, created for flights to the Moon and Mars. Winner of the US presidential election donald trump together with his colleague Elon Musk He visited the Musk-owned SpaceX launch site in Texas.
Musk has stated that he hopes to conduct an unmanned Starship flight to Mars within the next four years. President of SpaceX Gwynne Shotwell It was previously claimed that the company plans to significantly increase the number of Starship launches during the Trump presidency; Their number could reach four hundred in the next four years, the Wall Street Journal reported.
