Elon Musk's SpaceX launched its 11th Starship rocket from Texas on Monday and landed it in the Indian Ocean, the last flight before the company begins test-launching a new version of the giant rocket outfitted with more features for moon and Mars missions.

SpaceX's second-generation Starship vehicle has just made a graceful exit. The company achieved every major objective it set for the super-heavy lift vehicle's 11th flight test, the second-gen Starship's final flight,

The rocket launched from Starbase, Texas and flew for more than an hour before splash landing into the Indian Ocean.

SpaceX’s Starship deployed test satellites in space and returned to Earth largely intact, repeating earlier milestones critical to Elon Musk’s goal of readying the vehicle for regular launches to orbit and beyond.

SpaceX said the fifth test flight aimed to take the spacecraft "another step towards full and rapid reusability." The spacecraft underwent several upgrades ahead of the flight tes

With the successful eleventh test flight of its Starship megarocket, SpaceX is on the cusp of a new era in spaceflight

Elon Musk's SpaceX launched its eleventh Starship rocket from Starbase, Texas on Monday, a test mission to demonstrate the giant vehicle's reusable design for lofting satellites and eventually taking humans to the moon and Mars.

When employees at SpaceX HQ saw their latest Starship rocket make a steady, controlled splashdown in the Indian Ocean, after an hour-long flight where it passed every test, the atmosphere was jubilant — and more than a little patriotic.