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> The Starship and its Super Heavy rocket will launch from SpaceX's Starbase test site near Boca Chica Beach in South Texas, with the Super Heavy booster attempting a soft water landing splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico while the Starship vehicle circles the Earth for a water splashdown off the coast of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean.

> the entire flight will take around 90 minutes

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Texas to Hawaii, the long way

But still only 90 minutes

Once around the planet in low earth orbit is about 90 minutes. This is just how long these things take. In other words it would be difficult for a suborbital flight around the planet from Texas to Hawaii to take anything other than about 90 minutes.

If you went the other way, it would be much faster... But less "around the world".

You could go west and take less time. You could go really high and take hours.

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