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Starship V3 blasts off in 12th test flight of rocket that Elon Musk is developing with aim of taking people to Mars

SpaceX has launched its biggest, most powerful Starship yet, an upgraded version that Nasa is counting on to land astronauts on the moon.

The redesigned mega-rocket made its debut two days after SpaceX’s CEO, Elon Musk, announced he was taking the company public. It blasted off from the southern tip of Texas on Friday, carrying 20 mock Starlink satellites that were released midway through the hourlong spaceflight that stretched halfway around the world.