NOTAMs say launch window is about 2 hours starting at 7am CST on Thursday, March 14th.
Clear skies and smooth sailing, Starship!
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SpaceX’s Starship rocket and Super Heavy booster will take off from the Starbase test site on the Texas Gulf Coast, a few miles north of the US-Mexico border.
This would be the first night launch of Starship, but the timing of liftoff could be close enough to sunrise to allow sunlight to illuminate the rocket’s expanding engine plumes as it climbs into the upper atmosphere.
SpaceX upgraded the pad with a water deluge system to protect the ground infrastructure at Starbase from the blast and heat generated by the Super Heavy booster’s 33 Raptor engines.
During a planned vent of excess liquid oxygen, Starship developed a leak that resulted in a “combustion event,” ultimately causing the rocket’s computer to issue a self-destruct command.
The Super Heavy booster was supposed to attempt a controlled splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico in a test of SpaceX’s plans to recover and reuse the massive Starship first stage.
The booster also self-destructed in the upper atmosphere after some of its engines, which were supposed to guide it back toward an offshore splashdown zone, lost pressure in their oxidizer turbopumps.
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