Getty Images) The Starship - the biggest rocket ever created at nearly 400feet (121metres) tall - was packed with 10 dummy satellites for practice at releasing them for the test flight. The last data received from the spacecraft indicated an altitude of 90miles (146kilometers) and a velocity of 13,245mph (21,317kph) but then the issues disappointed the company - and the crowds gathered on the southern tip of Texas. SpaceX had made improvements to the spacecraft for the latest demo and added a fleet of satellite mockups. The test satellites were the same size as SpaceX’s Starlink internet satellites and, like the spacecraft, were meant to be destroyed upon entry. Musk plans to launch actual Starlinks on Starships before moving on to other satellites and, eventually, crews. It was the seventh test flight for the world’s biggest and most powerful rocket. NASA has reserved a pair of Starships to land astronauts on the moon later this decade. Musk’s goal is Mars. Hours earlier in Florida, another billionaire’s rocket company — Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin — launched the newest supersized rocket, New Glenn. The rocket reached orbit on its first flight, successfully placing an experimental satellite thousands of miles above Earth. But the first-stage booster was destroyed, missing its targeted landing on a floating platform in the Atlantic. Top Stories