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After a spectacular end to its first test flight where it lost control and then exploded, the second launch of SpaceX's 36-storey Starship rocket has been rescheduled to Saturday. The 20-minute launch window opened at 8 am ET. If they fail to launch Saturday, there is another opportunity Sunday morning.    #SpaceX #StarshipRocketLaunch #StarshipRocket #ElonMusk #SpaceXLaunch #SpaceXStarshipUpdate #SpaceXLaunchToday #StarshipLaunchNews #SpaceXNews                  ~PR.152~ED.155~GR.121~HT.96~

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00:00 After a spectacular end to its first test flight, where it lost control and then exploded,

00:06 the second launch of SpaceX's 36-story Starship rocket has been rescheduled to Saturday.

00:13 The 20-minute launch window opened at 8 a.m.

00:15 If they fail to launch Saturday, there is another opportunity Sunday morning.

00:19 The Federal Aviation Administration granted regulatory approval for the launch on Wednesday.

00:23 While the company had planned for a Friday launch, Mr. Musk announced on Thursday on

00:28 X that SpaceX was moving the flight to Saturday because a part on the rocket needed to be

00:33 replaced.

00:34 "We need to replace a grid fin actuator so launch is postponed to Saturday," tweeted

00:39 SpaceX CEO and founder Musk on Friday.

00:42 Grid fins are the waffle iron-like structures on Starship's super-heavy first stage.

00:47 They help the booster steer its way back to the Earth.

00:50 Starship's first launch attempt in April was only somewhat successful.

00:54 During takeoff, Starship damaged the launch pad at the Starbase facility in Boca Chica,

00:59 Texas.

01:00 This caused parts of the launch pad to scatter across the area.

01:04 Perhaps that would have been understandable, but the launch vehicle itself exploded a few

01:08 minutes after takeoff and did not complete the mission objectives.

01:12 Starship launches from Boca Chica, Texas, a site on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico

01:16 near the city of Brownsville that SpaceX has nicknamed "Starbase."

01:20 The flight could lift off as early as 8 a.m. Eastern Time on Saturday.

01:25 SpaceX will stream the launch live on X.

01:27 There is a 20-minute window during which SpaceX could launch.

01:30 Test missions frequently lift off later in a launch window as flight managers work to

01:34 assure that systems are functioning as designed.

01:37 If the flight is fully successful, Starship will complete a partial trip around the Earth

01:41 before belly-flopping into the Pacific Ocean off the island of Kauai.

01:45 For NASA, Starship is a future moon lander for astronauts under the Artemis missions.

01:50 But for Mr. X, the founder and chief executive of SpaceX, the vehicle is central to his vision

01:55 of carrying settlers to the Red Planet.

01:57 That means Starship has to be big.

02:00 Stacked on top of what SpaceX calls a "super-heavy booster," the Starship rocket system will

02:04 be, by pretty much every measure, the biggest and most powerful ever.

02:08 It is the tallest rocket ever built, 394 feet tall or nearly 90 feet taller than the Statue

02:14 of Liberty, including the pedestrian.

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