In October last year, SpaceX successfully landed Starship’s booster back on a launch tower, in a big step for making it fully reusable. But at a test the following month, the catch of ‘Super Heavy’ had to be aborted and the booster splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico. Tonight, the rocket which is designed to be able to reach Mars will launch again, with a window starting at 10pm GMT. This will be its seventh test flight, and will be livestreamed from south Texas. At 122m tall, Starship is designed to help humans go interplanetary, colonising Mars. Nasa also intends to use it to take astronauts back to the Moon. This launch will be testing out ‘significant upgrades’ including its first payload deployment test, as well as attempting to show the Super Heavy booster catch can be repeated. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Up Next Donald Trump and Elon Musk watch the launch of Starship’s sixth test flight on November 19, 2024 (Picture: Reuters) SpaceX said improvements include a better heat shield, reduction in size of forward flaps, redesigns to the propulsion system, and new fuel feedline and ability to fly longer missions. It is a big day for the commercial space company, as it launched two private moon landers this morning too. One of the missions could help Nasa astronauts land on the moon again by contributing to the research making it possible, while the other will be the second attempt by Japanese company ispace after their lander crashed two years ago. Nasa is paying 101 million dollars (£82.7 million) to Firefly for the mission and another 44 million dollars (£36 million) for experiments it will run while there.