SpaceX Starship Launch & Booster Catch: Eighth Flight Test | Starbase Texas
Launch of a SpaceX Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy Booster on the launch pad at Starbase Texas on March 6, 2025, at 5:30 p.m Central Time (CT) for its eighth flight test. Mechazilla successfully caught the 23-story tall Super Heavy Booster for a record third time. Unfortunately, Starship lost attitude control later on and experienced a "rapid unscheduled disassembly."
Watch a replay of the SpaceX flight test with the latest official flight evaluation updates here:
SpaceX: "Developmental testing by definition is unpredictable. However, by putting flight hardware in a flight environment as frequently as possible, we’re able to quickly learn and execute design changes as we seek to bring Starship online as a fully and rapidly reusable vehicle."
SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy rocket—collectively referred to as Starship—represent a fully reusable transportation system designed to carry crew and cargo to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars and beyond. Starship is the world’s most powerful launch vehicle ever developed, capable of carrying up to 150 metric tonnes fully reusable and 250 metric tonnes expendable.
Key Starship Parameters:
Height: 123m/403ft
Diameter: 9m/29.5ft
Payload to LEO: 100–150t (fully reusable)
Height: 123m/403ft
Diameter: 9m/29.5ft
Payload to LEO: 100–150t (fully reusable)
"Starship is essential to both SpaceX’s plans to deploy its next-generation Starship system as well as for NASA, which will use a lunar lander version of Starship for landing astronauts on the Moon during the Artemis III mission through the Human Landing System (HLS) program."
Learn more about Starship:
Download the Free Starship User Guide (PDF):
Image Credit: Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX)
Capture Date: March 6, 2025
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