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SpaceX's Starship rocket does its job during first orbital flight
SpaceX sent its Starship super-rocket on its first orbital flight—a shorter-than-planned test mission that put operational Starlink satellites into orbit for the first time.
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SpaceX sent its Starship super-rocket on its first orbital flight—a shorter-than-planned test mission that put operational Starlink satellites into orbit for the first time. The rocket, 407 feet (124 meters) tall, rose from its launch pad at SpaceX's Starbase complex on the Texas coast at 7:50 a.m. CT (12:50 p.m. UTC) today and completed nearly two orbits.
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