SpaceX's 12th Starship test flight achieved a rare win, deploying dummy satellites into orbit, but exposed critical engineering gaps the company must fix before its expected $75 billion public market debut.

Friday's launch from Starbase, Texas marked a crucial moment, but the flight's mixed results underscore how much work remains before Starship can reliably carry people and cargo to space.

The rocket lifted off at 6:30pm ET, and it hit Mach 7 before doing the whole “splashdown" thing in the Indian Ocean. Still, the mission kind of showed what SpaceX didn’t pull off: the Super Heavy first stage failed almost right after separation, and then weird engine issues during relight........

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