But researchers didn’t record those sound levels directly adjacent to SpaceX’s Starbase facility. Kent Gee, Brigham Young University Provo’s chair of physics and astronomy, detected many of them roughly six miles away in Port Isabel.

The company will try to catch the giant booster of its moon and Mars rocket for a second time on Tuesday afternoon.

Starship is designed to send humans back to the moon and, eventually, take them to the planet Mars. Once SpaceX is given government clearance to launch Starship, it will be used for a Polaris Dawn civilian mission and NASA’s Artemis III human-moon mission.

SpaceX launched its Starship rocket Tuesday, foregoing an attempt to catch the Super Heavy booster at the launch site by mechanical arms.

SpaceX is expected to launch its sixth test of its massive Starship from South Texas on Tuesday evening. The two-stage Starship, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built, is expected to launch about 5 p.

SpaceX launched the sixth test flight Tuesday, its fourth in 2024. The uncrewed Starship took off from the company's facility near Brownsville, Texas SpaceX launched the sixth test flight Tuesday, as the company looks to keep up momentum of the mammoth vehicle's development.

SpaceX flight 6 launches today over Texas. Here's the rocket launch site, the launch schedule and how you can watch the SpaceX starship take off.