Changes in US stocks | SpaceX Starship enters orbit for the first time SpaceX (SPCX.US) rises more than 2%

The Zhitong Finance App learned that on Tuesday, SpaceX (SPCX.US) picked up rapidly in the intraday period. As of press release, it had risen more than 2% to $149.05. According to news, SpaceX's flagship rocket Starship successfully entered Earth orbit for the first time on September 28, completing the commercial space company's most ambitious mission to date. This means that this giant rocket, which has cost more than 15 billion US dollars and has gone through nearly ten years of research and development, has finally passed a critical step from sub-orbital testing to orbital flight.

According to reports, Starship launched at 7:49 a.m. local time on Monday from Starbase, Texas. Despite an early shutdown of an engine during the flight, the spacecraft continued to perform key ignition maneuvers after real-time evaluation by engineers, and successfully entered the scheduled orbit.

The mission was originally scheduled to last about 10 hours and fly around the Earth six times, but SpaceX finally decided to end this flight early. The flight team is expected to direct the Starship to derail 3 hours after it enters orbit. While in orbit, Starship also deployed 26 V3 Starlink satellites for the first time. Musk posted an article on X saying that this batch of V3 satellites is operating normally. The V3 Starlink satellite has a single download capacity of about 10 times that of the current V2 satellite.