SpaceX scrubs Starship check flight over unspecified ship subject

SpaceX’s Tremendous Heavy booster is seen on the launch pad, as Starship is ready to be positioned on prime, on the firm’s Boca Chica complicated, forward of Starship’s eighth check flight which is focused from Starbase, close to Brownsville, Texas, U.S.
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SpaceX on Monday (March 3, 2025) known as off its eighth Starship check flight from Texas over an unspecified subject on the rocket system’s core ship, delaying for at the very least 24 hours the corporate’s try and deploy mock Starlink satellites in area for the primary time.

The check mission would have been the primary Starship launch since a January mission ended eight minutes into flight when Starship, the principle prime half of the rocket, exploded over the Caribbean, sending fiery particles raining over the Turks and Caicos Islands and prompting a federal probe.

The scrub occurred throughout a pause to the launch countdown 40 seconds from liftoff that was triggered so SpaceX workers might examine a problem on the rocket, in accordance with an organization stay stream.

SpaceX spokesman Dan Huot mentioned the corporate might attempt to launch once more on Tuesday (March 4, 2025), pending the character of the problem.