From Space.com, May 21:
V3 is the Starship variant that will fly NASA's Artemis moon missions.
There's a lot riding on the debut flight of SpaceX's Starship V3 megarocket — not the least of which are NASA's Artemis moon landing ambitions.
The Starship launch is scheduled to take place today (May 21) from SpaceX's Starbase test site in South Texas, during a 90-minute window that opens at 6:30 p.m. EDT (2230 GMT; 5:30 p.m. local Texas time). You can watch it here at Space.com when the time comes and see our latest Starship V3 launch updates for more.
The flight will be the 12th overall for Starship, and it will be broadly similar to previous efforts — a suborbital jaunt that ends with controlled ocean splashdowns of Starship's Super Heavy booster and its Ship upper stage. But the vehicle involved is quite new, and SpaceX expects a lot out of it.
A bigger (and better?) Starship megarocket
The 408-foot-tall (124 meters) V3 ("Version 3") is bigger and more powerful than previous Starship iterations, which were already the biggest and most powerful rockets ever built, and it sports a number of other important upgrades as well....
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Here's the Space.com liveblog:
SpaceX Starship Flight 12 launch updates: 1st Starship V3 prepares for debut liftoff today
