The plan for Starship flight test 12 was pretty simple. Do all the things you did on flight test 11 but with a new ship, new booster, new engines and a new launch pad. The goal is to see how all the new hardware performs under essentially the same conditions as the last test flight. That means no catch of the booster, just a plan for a water landing. The ship is intended to enter orbit, deploy some mock satellites, and then water land in the Indian Ocean.
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