SpaceX launched another of its mammoth Starship rockets on a test flight, striving to make it halfway around the world while releasing mock satellites like last time.

Starship - the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built - thundered into the evening sky from the southern tip of Texas on Monday.

After sending the Starship stage to space, Super Heavy returned for a soft water landing in the Gulf of Mexico roughly 10 minutes after liftoff.

It was the 11th test flight for a full-scale Starship, which SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk intends to use to send people to Mars.

NASA's need is more immediate. The space agency cannot land astronauts on the moon by decade's end without the 123-metre Starship, the reusable vehicle meant to get them from lunar orbit down to the surface and back

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