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

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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 Pad 1 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

hitura-nobad • March 2, 2025, 8:29 p.m.

Adjusted launch window.


Nosu • March 3, 2025, 10:45 p.m.

Updating T-0


LL2 • March 3, 2025, 10:54 p.m.

Unofficial Re-stream by SPACE AFFAIRS has started


Nosu • March 3, 2025, 11:35 p.m.

Weather 65%


Nosu • March 3, 2025, 11:44 p.m.

Holding at T-40 seconds


Starship

Family:
Configuration: V2

Second development version of the Starship reusable two-stage super heavy-lift launch vehicle.

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Specifications
  • Stages
    2
  • Length
    123.3 m
  • Diameter
    9.0 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    9.0 m
  • Launch Mass
    5000.0 T
  • Thrust
    73550.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    Starship
  • Family
  • Variant
    V2
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Starship V2
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
    35000.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

Booster Info


Booster 15

Status: Lost


Type: Core
Flight Proven: No
First Flight: March 6, 2025
Last Flight: October 13, 2025
Flights: 2
Landings Attempted: 2
Landings Successful: 2

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


In-active Cargo Unmanned Payload Capacity: 35000 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 V2 Details

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