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SpaceX's mega rocket Starship is stack as it is prepared for a test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, Wednesday, March 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Elon Musk's SpaceX said on Thursday that its Starship launch vehicle is now slated to launch as soon as Monday.

Elon Musk's SpaceX is preparing for the next test flight of its Starship megarocket on Friday, following a dramatic mid-air explosion over the Caribbean during its last trial.

While the EU basks in a successful mission, SpaceX investigates what went wrong with Starship explosion. On Thursday, two high-profile rocket launches ended up with very different outcomes. For SpaceX,

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But the goal for SpaceX is to do about 10 launches per day." Philip Metzger is the director of the Stephen W. Hawking Center for Microgravity and Education at the University of Central Florida. He said the plans for the new integration facility will help the local economy.

The launch test will again attempt to complete the first payload deployment of Starlink simulators and conduct multiple reentry experiments.

The FAA gave SpaceX the green light on Wednesday to launch its Starship for its next test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas.

Mariah Davenport and Dane Siler were flying back to the US when their flight turned around because of the SpaceX rocket explosion.

Starship successfully launched on Wednesday for its eighth suborbital flight test in Boca Chica Beach, Texas. (Credit: SpaceX)