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SpaceX’s third Starship flight test is now scheduled for 9:25AM ET
This one will be a little different from the others.
Now that the Federal Aviation Administration has granted SpaceX a license(pdf), the third test flight of its Starship Super Heavy vehicle could take place as soon as Thursday morning. For this third launch, SpaceX says it’s targeting a splashdown in the Indian Ocean instead of aiming for a spot closer to Hawaii as it did with the previous attempts, to try things like in-space engine burns “while maximizing public safety.” The third flight test aims to build on what we’ve learned from previous flights while attempting a number of ambitious objectives, including the successful ascent burn of both stages, opening and closing Starship’s payload door, a propellant transfer demonstration during the upper stage’s coast phase, the first ever re-light of a Raptor engine while in space, and a controlled reentry of Starship.
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