This was the last flight before the company begins test-launching a new version of the giant rocket outfitted with more features for moon and Mars missions.

SpaceX closed a troubled but instructive chapter in its Starship rocket program Monday with a near-perfect test flight that carried the stainless steel spacecraft halfway around the world from South Texas to the Indian Ocean.

Before Starship can arrive in Florida, SpaceX has already begun mass production of its hexagonal heatshield tiles at Cape Canaveral.

SpaceX's upper-stage spacecraft made a soft, controlled landing on water at the end of its 11th test flight on Monday.

The eleventh flight test of Starship is preparing to launch as soon as Monday, . The launch window will open at 6:23 p.m. CT. It launched.

SpaceX on Monday night sent Starship’s current configuration on one last test flight, in a mission that the company says hit all its key goals, moving the program into its next phase.