Starship-Super Heavy Block 2 | Starship Flight 8

Status

Suborbital

Failure

Starship Flight 8

Launch Time
Thu Mar 06, 2025 23:30 UTC

Eighth flight of Starship and Super Heavy. Ship lost 4 out of 6 Raptors at around T+8:00 and entered unrecoverable roll.

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Rocket

Starship-Super Heavy Block 2

Image Credit: SpaceX

SpaceX

Status: Active

Liftoff Thrust: 74,400 kN

Stages: 2

Rocket Height: 123.1 m

Fairing Diameter: 9.0 m

Details

Vehicles

Splashdown

Ship 34

Flight #1

Manifest

Orbital Launch Pad A Catch Tower

Booster 15

Flight #1

Manifest

Mission Details

Starlink Simulators

Ship 34 was planned to deploy 4 Starlink simulators, similar in size and weight to next-generation Starlink satellites as the first exercise of a satellite deploy mission. The Starlink simulators were to be on the same suborbital trajectory as Starship, with splashdown targeted in the Indian Ocean. A relight of a single Raptor engine while in space was also planned.

Payloads: 4

Suborbital

Location

Orbital Launch Pad A, Starbase, Texas, USA

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Stats

SpaceX

468th mission

28th mission of 2025

9th failed mission

Starship

8th mission

2nd mission of 2025

3rd failed mission