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Mission · 6 March 2025

Starship Flight 8

The booster returned to the tower; the ship was lost after engine trouble.

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Liftoff of the eighth flight on 6 March 2025.Real photograph · SpaceX · Se svolením SpaceX / used with permission

Starship Flight 8 launched on 6. 3. 2025 from Starbase, Texas, as an uncrewed integrated test of SpaceX’s Starship and Super Heavy system. The booster returned to the tower; the ship was lost after engine trouble.

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  1. Launch date: 6. 3. 2025
  2. SpaceX · Starbase · Starship / Super Heavy
  3. Uncrewed developmental flight test.
  4. The booster returned to the tower; the ship was lost after engine trouble.
  5. Suborbital profile, without delivery to stable Earth orbit.

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last verified · 6 October 2026

  1. SpaceX — Flight 8

Spaceflightpedia. (n.d.). Starship Flight 8. Retrieved 9 October 2026, from https://spaceflightpedia.com/article/starship-flight-8

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