The rocket launched its 11th test flight at 6:23 p.m. local time on Monday, Oct. 13NEED TO KNOWThe 11th test flight of SpaceX's Starship proved successful, with the rocket seen splashing down in the ocean after its flight Video footage shared on X showed the vehicle heading towards the Indian Ocean over an hour The test comes nearly four months after the previous Starship test flight saw the rocket explode on its stand during testing in TexasStarship has landed!

SpaceX launched another of its mammoth Starship rockets on a test flight Monday, striving to make it halfway around the world while releasing mock satellites like last time.

The space agency cannot land astronauts on the moon by decade's end without the 403-foot (123-meter) Starship, the reusable vehicle meant to get them from lunar orbit down to the surface and back up.