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The upper-stage rocket engines have completed their burn efficiently. Starship is gliding by house, following a path to splash down within the Indian Ocean.
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The large Tremendous Heavy booster stage has indifferent from the Starship’s higher stage, now en path to house. The flight seems to be progressing nicely.
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SpaceX’s 400-foot-tall Starship has lifted off from SpaceX’s launch web site in Boca Chica Village, Texas.
Watch the launch occasion right here:
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On Wednesday night, the Federal Aviation Administration granted SpaceX a “license authorization” for the third launch of essentially the most large rocket ever, Starship.
“The FAA has granted license authorization for the third launch of the @SpaceX Starship Tremendous Heavy automobile. The FAA decided SpaceX met all security, environmental, coverage, and monetary duty necessities,” the FAA wrote in a put up on X.
The FAA has granted license authorization for the third launch of the @SpaceX Starship Tremendous Heavy automobile. The FAA decided SpaceX met all security, environmental, coverage and monetary duty necessities. Be taught extra at https://t.co/EkZUsgWYNm. #FAASpace
— The FAA ✈️ (@FAANews) March 13, 2024
Round 0300 ET, Elon Musk mentioned: “Starship launch try in ~5 hours.”
Starship launch try in ~5 hours
pic.twitter.com/cEBv1EHsQf— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 14, 2024
SpaceX says {that a} 110-minute launch window will open at 0800 ET. Starship was stacked final week on the SpaceX’s Starbase launch facility in southern Texas close to Brownsville.
For this third launch, SpaceX will construct on what it has discovered from the earlier two launches and try a splashdown within the Indian Ocean.
The third flight take a look at goals to construct on what we have discovered from earlier flights whereas trying quite a lot of formidable targets, together with the profitable ascent burn of each phases, opening and shutting Starship’s payload door, a propellant switch demonstration in the course of the higher stage’s coast part, the primary ever rekindle of a Raptor engine whereas in house, and a managed reentry of Starship. It should additionally fly a brand new trajectory, with Starship focused to splashdown within the Indian Ocean. This new flight path allows us to try new methods like in-space engine burns whereas maximizing public security. -SpaceX
Flight trajectory map
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