Boca Chica, Texas: SpaceX on Monday launched another of its massive Starship rockets on a test flight, aiming to send it halfway around the globe while deploying mock satellites — repeating the feat of its previous mission.

Starship, the world’s largest and most powerful rocket, roared into the evening sky from the southern tip of Texas. The booster separated and made a controlled descent into the Gulf of Mexico as planned, while the spacecraft briefly skimmed the edge of space before descending toward the Indian Ocean. No part of the vehicle was meant to be recovered.

This marks the 11th full-scale test flight of Starship, which SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk envisions as the vehicle that will one day carry humans to Mars. NASA also relies on the program to meet its nearer-term goal — landing astronauts on the Moon by the end of the decade — using the 403-foot (123-meter) reusable Starship to ferry crews between lunar orbit and the surface.

Instead of staying inside Launch Control, Musk said that for the first time, he was going outside to watch — “much more visceral.”

The previous test in August, deemed a success following a series of earlier explosive failures, followed a similar route and mission profile. This time, SpaceX added extra maneuvers for the spacecraft, conducting a series of tests during its entry over the Indian Ocean to simulate future landings back at the Texas launch site.

As with the earlier flight, Starship carried eight mock satellites designed to mimic SpaceX’s Starlink network. The entire flight was expected to last just over an hour, launching from the company’s Starbase facility near the Mexican border.

SpaceX is also upgrading its Cape Canaveral launch facilities in Florida to handle Starship missions, alongside the smaller Falcon rockets that currently transport astronauts and supplies to the International Space Station for NASA.