Starship demonstrated key abilities on its path to becoming a fully reusable transport to take astronauts to the moonOn Thursday SpaceX pulled off the second consecutive successful test flight of its Starship megarocket. The Starlink satellites are the same as those SpaceX is planning to use to further build out its orbital broadband Internet constellation. Alone in space, Starship also showed improvements over its last test flight, successfully reigniting one of its six Raptor engines for a brief burn. The spacecraft didn’t attempt this feat during its previous test flight in May because the Raptor engine shut down prematurely during launch. After deploying its satellites, Starship splashed down successfully north of Australia in the Indian Ocean, although it did briefly catch fire in the water.