Starship Flight 8 | Starship-Super Heavy Block 2

Launch Failure

Liftoff Time (GMT)

23:30:35

Thursday March 6, 2025

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Launch Notes

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

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.

Suborbital

4 Payloads