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Then-President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk view SpaceX’s sixth Starship test flight last November. Credit: Shutterstock / This story was originally published by ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Before and after the 2024 election, Elon Musk made it…
SpaceX launched the latest test of its mega rocket Starship on Tuesday night and completed the first-ever deployment of a test payload — eight dummy satellites — into space. After just over an hour coasting through space, Starship splashed down as planned in the Indian Ocean. Starship blasted off from Starbase, SpaceX’s launch site in…