Starship Flight 8
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Starship V2 · Thursday, March 6, 2025

Starship Flight 8

Third booster catch succeeded; the Block 2 ship was again lost after an energetic engine event.

Result
Partial
Super Heavy
Caught
Starship
Lost
Duration
~9 min (ship)

Photo: SpaceX

Flight replay

Watch Starship Flight 8

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The flight

What Happened

The Super Heavy booster was caught at the tower for the third time, but the Block 2 Starship again failed: an energetic event led to multiple engine shutdowns, loss of attitude control, and vehicle breakup, with debris over parts of Florida and the Bahamas.

Firsts

  • Third tower catch

Flight path

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The typical Starship flight plan. SpaceX publishes no minute-by-minute timeline for this flight. A dashed line is a stage that did not finish its plan.

Two stages

Booster and Ship

Super Heavy boosterCaught
Caught by the tower (Pad 1)
Starship upper stageLost
Lost after an energetic engine event and loss of control

Objectives

  • Third booster catch
  • Recover Block 2 upper-stage performance after Flight 7
  • Starlink-simulator deploy test

Anomalies

  • Energetic event and multiple engine shutdowns on the ship
  • Debris over Florida / the Bahamas

Sources