SpaceX’s first Super Heavy booster lifted off on April 20 with three engines down, leaving 30 Raptor engines—the minimum needed to put a Starship upper stage into space for what the company had hoped would be a 90-min. flight test around the planet. But 27 sec. into the flight an “energetic event”...
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