SpaceX’s Starship Prototype test program took a giant leap forward on Wednesday, as SN8 conducted a 12.5 Kilometer test flight – and a landing attempt – at the company’s facilities in Boca Chica, Texas.
Successfully landing Starship SN8 had but a slim chance of being achieved. However, data from the flight – and the major steps forward with an ascent, controlled descent and flip – will have provided vital data to be fed into a fleet of follow-on tests, starting with the next Starship, SN9, which is all-but ready to roll once SN8 has vacated the launch mount.