SpaceX Starship Flight 6

SpaceX Starship Flight 6 is scheduled for November 19 at 5:00 PM EDT /November 20 at 6:00 AM SGT /November 20 at 9:00 AM AEST. Subscribe NOW to join the live webcast to catch a rocket from space!

SpaceX is making preparations for the sixth test flight of the world’s most powerful rocket, Starship. The company has been taking a “fail fast, learn fast” approach to research and development more akin to the world of Silicon Valley than the aerospace industry, and the pace of launches only appears to be speeding up.

The booster stage will again attempt a “chopstick” landing, in which the craft is grabbed and secured as it returns to the launchpad, allowing it to be lowered to the ground. This approach is designed to eventually allow the booster to be re-used multiple times and massively reduce the cost of putting payloads into orbit.The upper stage will reach space, carry out a partial orbit and then re-enter Earth’s atmosphere for a splash landing in the Indian Ocean.