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Replay! SpaceX Starship launches on 6th flight, booster splashes down in Gulf - YouTubeWatch On Update for 6:44 p.m. ET: SpaceX has successfully launched its Starship Flight 6 test flight with a smooth Starship flight and splashdown in the Indian Ocean, but the company skipped an attempted catch of its Super Heavy booster. Read our full Starship Flight 6 launch story for the details, new photos and video.Just before sunset this evening (Nov. 19) on the outskirts of the southernmost town in Texas, SpaceX's Starship rocket is scheduled to launch on its sixth test flight to space, and you can watch it live on Space.com.The two-stage reusable vehicle is the largest and most powerful rocket ever built, consisting of the Starship upper stage and its Super Heavy booster. Today's launch, designated Integrated Flight Test-6 (IFT-6), is scheduled to lift off during a 30-minute window that opens at 5:00 p.m. EST (2200 GMT; 4 p.m. local Texas time).This will be SpaceX's second Starship launch in as many months, having successfully flown IFT-5 on Oct. 13. Today's launch will largely mirror that most recent flight, with the return and catch of the Super Heavy booster using the launch tower's "chopstick" arms, and a controlled splashdown of Starship in the Indian Ocean.The livestream for SpaceX's Starship Flight 6 will begin 30 minutes before the opening of the launch window, around 4:30 p.m. EST (2030 GMT). SpaceX's official stream can be found through the company's X account, which will be simulcast on the Space.com YouTube channel, VideoFromSpace. Live coverage of the launch will also appear at the top of the Space.com homepage.Related: SpaceX rolls Starship Flight 6 Super Heavy rocket to pad ahead of Nov. 19 launch (photos)Building on the success of IFT-5, today's Starship launch will also attempt to perform a boost-back and

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SpaceX places the Starship Flight 8 Super Heavy booster atop the orbital launch mount at its Starbase site ahead of a planned March 3, 2025 liftoff.(Image credit: SpaceX)SpaceX has pushed the eighth test flight of its Starship megarocket back a few days.Elon Musk's company had been targeting Friday (Feb. 28) for Flight 8 of Starship, the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built. But that's no longer the plan."Now targeting to launch Starship's eighth flight test as soon as Monday, March 3," SpaceX said in an X post early on Thursday morning (Feb. 27). No reason was given for the delay.If all goes to plan, Starship will lift off from Starbase, SpaceX's facility in South Texas, on Monday during a window that opens at 6:30 p.m. EST (2330 GMT; 5:30 p.m. local Texas time). You'll be able to watch the action live here at Space.com, courtesy of SpaceX.You may likeSpaceX calls off Starship Flight 8 launch test due to rocket issues (video)SpaceX targeting Feb. 28 for next launch of Starship megarocketRelated: SpaceX catches Super Heavy booster on Starship Flight 7 test but loses upper stage (video, photos)A fully stacked Starship launched for the first time in April 2023. The rocket has flown six more times since then, most recently on Jan. 16.That mission, Flight 7, was partially successful. SpaceX managed to catch Starship's huge first-stage booster, known as Super Heavy, with the "chopstick" arms of Starbase's launch tower about seven minutes after liftoff.Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more!Ship, the vehicle's upper stage, was supposed to deploy 10 dummy versions of SpaceX's Starlink internet satellites, circle much of the planet, and splash down in the Indian Ocean off Western Australia about an hour after launch. That didn't happen, however; Ship suffered a propellant leak and ended up exploding over the Atlantic Ocean.The goals of Flight 8 will be similar to those of Flight 7, SpaceX wrote in a mission description. SpaceX will try for another Super Heavy chopsticks catch — its third overall, if successful — and Ship will attempt to deploy mock Starlink