Spacex Launches Starship Rocket 2024 Spacex. South padre island, texas — spacex's starship megarocket, the world's largest and most powerful rocket, reached orbital speed for the first time thursday in a historic. Spacex successfully launched the latest test flight of starship sunday morning, the most powerful rocket system ever constructed, which could one day be used to carry humans.

Starship’s fifth flight test lifted off on october 13, 2024, with our most ambitious test objectives yet as we work to demonstrate techniques fundamental to starship and super heavy’s fully and rapidly reusable design. Spacex launch pad shortly after a rocket test launch on june 6, 2024.