SpaceX’s Starship Flight 8 Suffers A Delay As Upper Stage Rocket Doesn’t Ship To Pad

OSTN Staff

SpaceX’s Starship Flight 8, which was initially scheduled to fly on Friday, has now been delayed to Monday, the firm shared in an update earlier today. Starship Flight 8 will repeat Flight 7’s test objectives and come a month and a half after the previous test resulted in a spectacular mid-air explosion, which sent debris raining down over the Caribbean. The delay follows after SpaceX shipped the Super Heavy booster to the pad earlier this week, and a Friday launch would have left little time for the firm to test the full Starship stack via a wet dress rehearsal. SpaceX […]

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