SpaceX Wants You Live Its Mars Mission As It Heads To Historic Test

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Even as it slowly heads towards the first orbital launch attempt of its Starship super heavy lift rocket, SpaceX is eager to remind everyone of the capabilities of its Falcon 9 rocket - the only medium lift launch vehicle that is capable of vertically landing and reusability. The latest launch of the Falcon 9 saw the rocket take to the skies from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida as part of SpaceX's 23rd launch for the year and its 222nd overall launch. The mission saw the rocket's second stage launch a satellite for Intelsat's aviation network satellite and a NASA monitoring satellite attached to the Intelsat satellite.

However, yesterday afternoon SpaceX shared new visuals from the Falcon 9 second stage as it continued its journey during the Intelsat mission. At the same time, SpaceX also released a teaser of Starship's future, showing a simulation of the rocket launching in all its glory and landing on Mars - in a hint of what's to come if the highly anticipated orbital test flight is successful.

Since the Intelsat 40e mission was to a geosynchronous transfer orbit, the Falcon 9's second stage flew higher than it usually does for a SpaceX Starlink mission. In fact, the Intelsat satellite was deployed at a typical altitude of a Starlink spacecraft, which is around 550 kilometers in low Earth orbit (LEO). The higher altitude also provides excellent visuals, and SpaceX didn't disappoint as it shared a full view of the Earth's curvature behind the second stage's nozzle yesterday afternoon.

The footage was also remarkably crisp and longer than the usual visuals from orbit