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GO! - SpaceX - Starship - Suborbital Test Flight 8 - OLP-A - Starbase Texas - March 6, 2025

Some minutes after the hot staging, the Starship lost its ACS (Altitude Control System) and became unstable. The tower successfully caught the Super Heavy Booster. Launch Date: March 6, 2025 Launch ...

Watch live: SpaceX launches Starship on 8th test flight, tries to catch returning booster

Watch live as a SpaceX Super Heavy booster and Starship launch on its 8th test flight featuring another attempt to catch a returning booster with the chopsticks on launch pad tower, nicknamed 'Mechazi...

SpaceX Starship Flight 8 - Second Attempt

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Starship's Eighth Flight Test

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[TIME SUBJECT TO CHANGE] This is the eighth fully integrated test flight of Starship with its Super Heavy booster, the largest and most powerful rocket to ever fly. This is the second launch of the ne...

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Flight 8

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Overview

Destination: Suborbital
Mission: Test Flight

Suborbital Orbital Launch Mount A SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
Booster 15 - Orbital Launch Mount A

Eighth test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle.

Telemetry

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Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • March 6, 2025, 11:56 p.m.

Ship lost 4 engines out of 6 at ~T+8:00 and entered unrecoverable roll.


Cosmic_Penguin • March 6, 2025, 11:31 p.m.

Liftoff.


LL2 • March 6, 2025, 10:53 p.m.

Unofficial Re-stream by SPACE AFFAIRS has started


Cosmic_Penguin • March 5, 2025, 12:50 p.m.

Delayed to NET March 6.


Cosmic_Penguin • March 4, 2025, 1:12 p.m.

Rescheduled for NET March 5.


Starship

Family:
Configuration:

Fully reusable two-stage super heavy-lift launch vehicle.

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Specifications
  • Stages
    2
  • Length
    120.0 m
  • Diameter
    9.0 m
  • Fairing Diameter
  • Launch Mass
    5000.0 T
  • Thrust
    72000.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    Starship
  • Family
  • Variant
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Starship
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
    100000.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
    21000.0 kg
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

Booster Info


Booster 15

Status: Active


Type: Core
Flight Proven: No
First Flight: March 6, 2025
Last Flight: March 6, 2025
Flights: 1
Landings Attempted: 1
Landings Successful: 1

Landing Information

The Superheavy booster No. 15 was successfully caught by the launch pad tower.

Result: Successful Return to Launch Site landing at Orbital Launch Mount A.

Ship 34


Active Cargo Unmanned Payload Capacity: 100000 kg
Destination: Suborbital
Serial Number: S34

Ship 34 (S34) is the 2nd stage vehicle used for the eighth Starship flight test. It is the second "Block 2" Starship spacecraft with lengthened propellant tanks and forward flaps with a new design, among other enhancements.

Starship Details

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CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 492 Failures: 14 Pending: 118

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Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.

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