This is the eleventh test launch of the The Starship rocket. The Starship rocket was manufactured by SpaceX with the first launch on April 20, 2023. The Starship is a fully reusable two-stage super heavy-lift launch vehicle. It stands almost 120m (400ft) high and is designed to have almost double the thrust of any rocket in history and is capable of carrying up to 100 people. The launch will today will be uncrewed. Mission: Integrated Flight Test. This flight test will The Super Heavy booster being used previously saw action on flight 8 and will include 24 flight-proven Raptor engines. There are no plans to attempt another catch - instead, the booster will be sent into the Gulf of Mexico after demonstrating a landing burn engine profile to be used on the next generation of booster. The plan is to use 13 engines at the start of the landing phase, then transition to five engines for the divert phase, demonstrating additional redundancy. The booster will subsequently transition to three engines and hover above the surface of the ocean before eventually splashing down into the water. NASA has contracted SpaceX to develop Starship as the lunar lander for the agency's Artemis 3 mission to return astronauts to the surface of the moon. That mission is slated to launch sometime in 2027. Before then, SpaceX has to land at least one uncrewed Starship on the moon and then successfully launch it back into lunar orbit. So far, Starship has not yet completed one full orbit of Earth. SpaceX intends to begin launching Starships to Mars beginning in 2026.