SpaceX is aiming to light this candle and send their 2nd Starship flying into the heavens, if it doesn’t explode in a fiery ball of flames and rain debris down on the launch site like it did the 1st time it launched.
After moving the launch date back 1 day SpaceX is now planning to launch Starship on Saturday, November 18, 2023. If everything goes according to plan, which it never does with spaceflight, the rocket will take off, fly through the atmosphere, then hopefully separate (because it didn’t do this last part on the 1st flight), then when it reaches the apogee of its flight it should coast back to earth on its belly before righting itself, firing its thrusters, and do a controlled landing descent into the ocean; because they aren’t trying to land this flight on a launch pad with this 2nd attempt. That is if they don’t experience a RUD (Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly) in space geek speak.
Musk: SpaceX now aiming for Saturday for Starship’s second flight test