If the next Starship makes it through staging, you can call that a win
arstechnica.com
A key moment will come 2 minutes and 41 seconds into the next Starship test flight.
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    These next steps include launching Starlink Internet satellites, which will expedite the network’s ability to directly connect with consumer cell phones.

    The upgraded launch pad includes a water-cooled steel plate underneath the pedestal that the Starship rocket sits on during the countdown.

    SpaceX believes this water deluge design will better handle the heat and acoustic energy from the Super Heavy booster during liftoff.

    The second Starship test flight could happen as soon as next week, perhaps as early as Monday morning, from SpaceX’s launch base near Brownsville, Texas.

    Technicians will install pyrotechnic charges on the Starship rocket to complete the arming of its flight termination system, the destruct mechanism needed to blow up the vehicle if it veers off course.

    Then SpaceX will stack the Starship upper stage on top of the Super Heavy booster to create the fully formed, nearly 400-foot-tall (120-meter) launch vehicle, the largest rocket ever built.

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