SpaceX's Super Heavy booster was unable to complete its planned splashdown after separating from Starship Flight 13, but still gathered insight that will inform the company's push to develop a fully reusable rocket for future missions.

The company ticked off a few more boxes on the second Starship V3 flight, but appears to have had another issue re-lighting the booster's rocket engines.

The launch comes just over two months since the 12th test flight that was the first for the new Version 3 of the rocket. That mission suffered an uncontrolled landing of its booster in the Gulf that ultimately led to the rocket’s grounding by the Federal Aviation Administration, which was lifted earlier this month.