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The most powerful rocket ever built launches today.

SpaceX Starship Flight 11 lifts off from Starbase, Texas at 6:15 PM CT. 121m tall, 39 engines, 7,500 tons of thrust—3X Saturn V. This is IFT-11, the final Block 2 test before the even larger V3.

Mission objectives: 13→5 engine landing burn, heat shield stress testing (intentional tile gaps), 8 Starlink deployment sims, in-space Raptor relights.

If successful: launch costs drop from $67M to <$10M per flight. That's 85% cheaper access to space.

Here's the engineering that makes it possible:

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