SpaceX is set to launch its eighth test flight of the massive Starship rocket today. The 123-meter-tall rocket, scheduled to lift off from the company’s Starbase site in South Texas, will carry out a series of tests as planned.
The mission aims to deploy four dummy versions of SpaceX’s Starlink broadband satellites into suborbital space before splashing down in the Indian Ocean off Western Australia. If successful, the Super Heavy booster will return to Starbase and be caught by the launch tower’s “chopstick” arms about seven minutes after liftoff.
The launch is part of a larger effort to develop Starship for human settlements on the moon and Mars, as well as handling other launch tasks. NASA has partnered with SpaceX to use the vehicle in its Artemis program, aiming to land astronauts on the moon in the near future.
Live coverage of the launch will be available through SpaceX’s website or directly from Space.com. Coverage is expected to begin about 40 minutes before liftoff.
Source: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/private-spaceflight/spacex-launching-flight-8-of-starship-megarocket-today-watch-it-live