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Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.
Second test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle. The booster is expected to separate 170 seconds into flight and return to land approximately 32 km off the shore in the Gulf of Mexico. The second stage will follow a suborbital trajectory and perform an unpowered splashdown approximately 100 km off the northwest coast of Kauai (Hawaii).
Serial S25
Launch Crew Count 0
Status Destroyed
Landing Time 2023-11-18T13:11:00+0000
Height 120.00 Meters
Max Stages 2
Mass To GTO 21000 kg
Liftoff Thrust 72000 kN
Diameter 9.00 Meters
Mass To LEO 100000 kg
Liftoff Mass 5000 Tonnes
Launch Success 4
Consecutive Success 4
Maiden Flight 2023-04-20
Launch Failures 2
Serial Booster 9
Status destroyed
Flight Proven Yes
Flights 1
Landing Attempt Yes
Landing Success No
Type Ocean
Location GOM
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-02-27T02:01:23+0000
Updated failure reason.
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-11-19T03:17:23+0000
Added launch time to the seconds.
Nosu
2023-11-18T14:20:04+0000
Starship successfully performed stage separation, while the Booster and Ship were lost after separation and seconds before shutdown respectively.
Nosu
2023-11-18T13:03:11+0000
Liftoff
Nosu
2023-11-18T13:02:34+0000
Countdown has resumed
Nosu
2023-11-18T13:00:25+0000
Holding at T-40 seconds
LL2
2023-11-18T07:01:15+0000
Livestream has started
hitura-nobad
2023-11-16T19:49:29+0000
launch delayed to saturday to replace a grid fin actuator.
Nosu
2023-11-15T21:47:00+0000
SpaceX has received the FAA license to launch Starship on its second test flight. Setting GO for the attempt on November 17 between 13:00 and 15:00 UTC (7-9am local).
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-11-14T02:56:28+0000
Refined launch window.
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-11-11T02:05:11+0000
NET November 17, pending final regulatory approval.
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-11-09T00:18:10+0000
Refined daily launch window.
Nosu
2023-11-08T22:08:20+0000
NET November 15 per marine navigation warnings.
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-11-07T04:34:50+0000
NET November 13 per marine navigation warnings.
Jay
2023-11-03T20:02:55+0000
SpaceX is targeting NET Mid-November for the second flight of Starship. This is subject to regulatory approval, which is currently pending.
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-11-01T10:54:19+0000
Targeting November 2023, pending regulatory approval.
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-09-18T14:54:57+0000
Moving to NET October awaiting regulatory paperwork approval.
Jay
2023-05-27T01:15:42+0000
IFT-2 is NET August according to a tweet from Elon. This is a highly tentative timeline, and delays are possible, and highly likely. Pad upgrades should be complete by the end of June, with vehicle testing starting soon after.
The SpaceX Starship is a fully reusable super heavy-lift launch vehicle under development by SpaceX since 2012, as a self-funded private spaceflight project. The second stage of the Starship — is designed as a long-duration cargo and passenger-carrying spacecraft. It is expected to be initially used without any booster stage at all, as part of an extensive development program to prove out launch-and-landing and iterate on a variety of design details, particularly with respect to the vehicle's atmospheric reentry.
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SpaceX is doing full stack testing in preparation for the 2nd integrated flight test.
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SpaceX is doing full stack testing in preparation for the 2nd integrated flight test.
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Starship 25 will be stacked on Super Heavy Booster 9, in preparation for the second integrated flight test.
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SpaceX performed a second static fire of Booster 9.
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SpaceX performed a static fire of Super Heavy Booster 9. The 33 engines fired for 2.74 seconds with 4 engines shutting down prematurely
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SpaceX will lift a superheavy booster onto the orbital launch mount for the first time since the first IFT.
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Starship S25 will conduct a static fire test of all 6 Raptor 2 engines on Suborbital Pad B at SpaceX's Starbase facility.
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