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SpaceX eyes March 14 for next Starship test flight
SpaceX is aiming to launch its massive Starship rocket for the third time as soon as March 14, the company confirmed in a social media post Wednesday.
Just this past weekend, teams at the Starbase facility in southwest Texas completed a critical “wet dress” rehearsal for launch, loading the nearly 400-foot-tall rocket with more than 10 million pounds of propellant and practicing the countdown sequence to T-minus 10 seconds. No doubt the company is hoping to keep up that trend, though this third test introduces a handful of new, very ambitious objectives, including a propellant transfer demonstration during the Starship upper stage’s coasting phase and the first-ever relight of a Raptor engine in space. “Recursive improvement is essential as we work to build a fully reusable transportation system capable of carrying both crew and cargo to Earth orbit, help humanity return to the Moon, and ultimately travel to Mars and beyond.”
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