SpaceX, Starship and Flight
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SpaceX’s Pad 2 at Starbase is the first launch pad built to both launch and catch a Super Heavy booster
When SpaceX caught a Super Heavy booster with the mechanical arms of its launch tower for the first time in October 2024, the 233-foot-tall rocket returned not to the pad it launched from, but to a tower that had been retrofitted with catch hardware after the fact.
SpaceX's redesigned Starship V3 launches from Texas this week. Meanwhile, preparations to launch Starship from Florida are underway.
The launch window for the 12th flight test of Starship opens at 5:30 pm CT, and, as with previous test flights, the vehicle will be on a suborbital trajectory. The launch, from an entirely new pad, will be the first of SpaceX's third-generation Starship and will validate that there have been no inadvertent regressions.