SpaceX to launch Starship into orbit around Earth for first time

A thunderous lift off, rapid satellite deployments and a fiery ending. That's how SpaceX's 14th launch of its Starship rocket panned out today.

SpaceX - owned by Elon Musk - describes Starship as "the world's most powerful launch vehicle ever developed". SpaceX aims for it to be reusable and eventually take people to the Moon.

It's made up of two parts, the booster, and the top section called the Ship. Minutes after today's launch from the base in Texas, the booster landed in the Gulf of Mexico as planned.