Starship’s third-ever check flight is formally on for Thursday morning (March 14).The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) introduced at the moment (March 13) that it has awarded a launch license for the mission. “The FAA decided SpaceX met all security, environmental, coverage and monetary duty necessities,” the company wrote in a put up on X this afternoon.Starship, the most important and strongest rocket ever constructed, is scheduled to raise off on Thursday from SpaceX’s Starbase web site in South Texas throughout a 110-minute window that opens at 8 a.m. EDT (1200 GMT). You possibly can watch the motion stay right here at Area.com, starting at 7:30 a.m. EDT (1130 GMT).Associated: SpaceX fuels up large Starship megarocket in check for third launch (pictures)The 400-foot-tall (122 meters) Starship is designed to be totally and quickly reusable, a breakthrough that SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk thinks will permit humanity to settle the moon and Mars.The megarocket has two check flights below its belt thus far, which passed off in April and November of final yr. Starship’s two phases didn’t separate as deliberate on the April flight, nonetheless, which ended after simply 4 minutes.Issues went higher in November — stage separation occurred as deliberate, for instance — however each phases ended up exploding excessive within the sky on that mission as nicely. The FAA wrapped up its investigation into what occurred on the November flight late final month. However the company took some further time earlier than awarding a license for launch quantity three at the moment.Thursday’s flight will likely be totally different, and bolder, than its predecessors. “The third flight check goals to construct on what we have discovered from earlier flights whereas making an attempt quite a lot of formidable aims, together with the profitable ascent burn of each phases, opening and shutting Starship’s payload door, a propellant switch demonstration in the course of the higher stage’s coast section, the primary ever rekindle of a Raptor engine whereas in house, and a managed reentry of Starship,” SpaceX wrote in a mission description.As well as, Thursday’s check launch will goal to convey Starship’s higher stage down within the Indian Ocean. The goal splashdown zone for the primary two check missions, in contrast, was the Pacific Ocean close to Hawaii.