Starship | Flight 8
Launch Failure
Ship 34 lost 4 out of 6 Raptors at around T+8:00 and entered unrecoverable roll.L - -- : -- : -- : --
Launch Window
March 6, 2025, 11:30 p.m. - March 7, 2025, 12:30 a.m.
March 6, 2025, 11:30 p.m. - March 7, 2025, 12:30 a.m.
Eighth test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle.
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Ship lost 4 engines out of 6 at ~T+8:00 and entered unrecoverable roll.
Liftoff.
Unofficial Re-stream by SPACE AFFAIRS has started
Delayed to NET March 6.
Rescheduled for NET March 5.
Fully reusable two-stage super heavy-lift launch vehicle.
See DetailsThe 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 (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 DetailsSpace 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.
INFO WIKI
SpaceX said today it plans to launch the ninth Starship Integrated Flight Test, IFT-9, on Tuesday, May 27. The flight follows two successive failures of the Starship second stage. Both […]
A series of aviation and marine warnings suggest the launch could be as soon as Tuesday, May 27, following the Memorial Day holiday. SpaceX has not publicly stated when it plans to launch the Starship Flight 9 mission.
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SpaceX continues to press on with pre-flight testing for Flight 9, while internally looking to… The post SpaceX press on with pre-launch testing while working Ship issue mitigation appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com.
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