The rocket, which consists of a spacecraft also called Starship, and a rocket booster known as the Super Heavy took off from SpaceX's private Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas, at 8:25am (13:25 GMT).
According to Musk, SpaceX's CEO, one of the objectives of these initial flights was to get Starship to orbital velocities, which are about 28,000 kilometres per hour (17,500 miles per hour).
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