LOS ANGELES, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- SpaceX launched the seventh test flight of its giant Starship rocket on Thursday.
Starship took off from the company's Starbase facility near Brownsville in the U.S. state of Texas at about 4:07 p.m. Central Time.
While in space, Starship will deploy 10 Starlink simulators, similar in size and weight to next-generation Starlink satellites as the first exercise of a satellite deploy mission. ■