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SpaceX will attempt to send the monumental Starship rocket to revolve for the third metre early Thursday morning after U.S. regulators contribute the green light for launching .
The caller is aiming to complete the launching within a 110 - second windowpane that opens at 7:00 a.m. CT . Starship testing is conducted from SpaceX ’s sprawling Starbase campus near Boca Chica , Texas , though the company will livestream the launchon its websiteand on the social media land site X starting at 6:30 a.m. CT .
SpaceX has direct two test flights of the 400 - base - tall rocket so far . The first charter place last April , and end with both the upper stage ( which is also called Starship ) and the Super Heavy booster exploding mid - air . The companionship made considerable progressduring the 2d orbital test flight , though it too finally ended in the devastation of the fomite .
These event are consider anomaly — a polite diligence term that includes everything from venial component failures to , in the guinea pig of the Starship launching , prominent explosion . Anytime an anomaly fall out during a rocket launch , the Federal Aviation Administration pace in to manage a company - run investigation . The investigation into the second Starship launch closed last month , so the only thing leave was for the regulator to issue a launch license for the run flight .
SpaceX implement a number of ironware change and rise as part of that investigation , and as part of its more world-wide approach to iterative hardware design .
This test raises the stakes in a few different way . The society isaiming to demonstrate novel capability , including a fuel conveyance demonstration , the opening and closing of the upper leg ’s shipment room access and relighting a Raptor engine in space for the first metre . Due to the in - space locomotive sunburn , the company is also direct a new flight flight , with the upper stage splashing down in the Indian Ocean .
spaceship is entire both to SpaceX ’s occupation program and NASA ’s challenging Artemis program , which aims to return humans to the moon by the end of the decade .
