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SpaceX launches third Starship test flight
Posted: Sun, Mar 17 9:02 AM ET (1302 GMT) SpaceX launched Starship on a third, mostly successful test flight Thursday. The Starship/Super Heavy vehicle lifted off from the company's Starbase facility in South Texas at 9:25 am EDT (1325 GMT). The launch placed Starship on its planned suborbital trajectory, where it performed tests such as opening a payload bay door and starting a propellant transfer demonstration. The vehicle reentered over the Indian Ocean but appeared to break up at an altitude of about 65 kilometers nearly 50 minutes after liftoff. The Super Heavy booster also broke up during a landing burn over the Gulf of Mexico. Although the vehicle did not complete all its test objectives, SpaceX still considered the flight successful, an assessment shared by NASA.
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Chinese launch of lunar satellites malfunctions
Posted: Sun, Mar 17 8:56 AM ET (1256 GMT) A malfunction during a Chinese launch Wednesday may have doomed two lunar spacecraft. A Long March 2C rocket lifted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center at 8:51 am EDT (1251 GMT), but there was no official report of the launch until early Thursday, when Chinese media said there was a malfunction with the rocket's Yuanzheng-1S upper stage. The rocket was carrying the DRO-A and -B satellites, intended to test lunar navigation technologies, likely in a distant retrograde orbit around the moon. It's unclear what orbit the spacecraft are in now and if their mission can be salvaged.
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