In an 11th successful Starship launch and splashdown, SpaceX inched closer to many of its longterm goals on the Moon and Mars.

SpaceX lanzó otro de sus enormes cohetes Starship en un vuelo de prueba el lunes, logrando exitosamente darle la vuelta a la mitad del planeta mientras soltaba satélites ficticios al igual que la ocasión anterior.

SpaceX and United Launch Alliance will share in $1.1 billion for seven missions, the latest round of deals in the National Security Space Launch program.

Hans Koenigsmann is one of SpaceX's earliest, longest tenured, and most revered employees. When Elon Musk started the company in 2002, he was joined by two other "founding" employees, Tom Mueller in propulsion and Chris Thompson in structures. Koenigsmann was the next hire, brought on to develop avionics for the Falcon 1 rocket.

If Starlink continues scaling up operations, there could be as many as five of these satellites raining down on us daily.