Starship’s fifth test flight is approved: where to watch the launch

SpaceX plans to launch Starship for the fifth time tomorrow, October thirteenth, throughout a 30-minute launch window that opens at 8AM ET. That’s after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) declared right this moment that the corporate has “met all security, environmental and different licensing necessities for the suborbital take a look at flight,” reports Reuters.

The corporate will livestream the launch, beginning about 35 minutes earlier than liftoff. You may catch that on SpaceX’s web site or its X account, in addition to within the X TV app.

SpaceX’s goal for tomorrow’s flight is to return the Tremendous Heavy booster to its launch web site, which hasn’t occurred earlier than. It’s capturing for one more profitable splashdown of Starship within the Indian Ocean, which it pulled off for the primary time in its fourth flight test in June.

The FAA’s clearance wasn’t anticipated till November, however the company and its associate “carried out assessments extra rapidly than anticipated,” as CNBC reported yesterday. Along with tomorrow’s deliberate launch, Reuters writes that the FAA “additionally authorized the Starship 6 mission profile.”