[SunkenCiv]

Watch live as a Super Heavy booster and Starship launch on a critical test flight for SpaceX's fully reusable rocket, following two consecutive failures of the Starship upper stage.

Liftoff of the 9th fully integrated Starship from SpaceX's Starbase facility at Boca Chica Beach, in Texas, is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. CDT / 7:30 p.m. EDT / 2330 UTC on Tuesday, May 27.

A highlight of the mission will be the reuse of a Super Heavy booster for the first time. The booster will not return for a catch by the launch tower but will instead make a hard splashdown off-shore to allow for more testing.

Our live coverage, hosted by Will Robinson-Smith, will begin two hours before launch and is brought to you in partnership with LabPadre.

[rlmorel]

Gonna watch! Thanks for the reminder.

[mabarker1]

Starship9

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[Damifino]

I follow SpaceX quit closely. SpaceX reports the failures in flight 7 and flight 8 were separate and different causes, even though they occurred in roughly at the same time of the flight. They believe they did fix the flight 7 issue of resonance. Flight 9 has updates to address an issue with the raptor 2.

Lots of speculation and rumors about this flight. Possibility tossed in a couple of Raptor 3 engines in the first stage for testing.

No catch of 1st stage. Possibly simulate a engine failed in landing to demonstrate the ability to land minus 1 engine. Rumor they may simulate the los of 2 (of 3) landing center engines - relight an outer ring engine to land. That would be epic!

God speed SpaceX, God speed Elon Musk.