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Flawed rocket launches by SpaceX and Blue Origin still leave both companies in position to dominate the space sector.
Starship will also perform its first satellite deployment test, in addition to debuting a number of key upgrades.
While SpaceX lost the upper stage of its new Starship in a flight test, the futuristic spacecraft presages a spaceflight revolution, says a leading U.S. space scholar.
SpaceX has caught its Starship rocket back at the pad following liftoff. But the spacecraft launched on top Thursday was destroyed.