Starship | Orbital Flight Test
Orbital Launch Mount A
SpaceX Space Launch Facility, TX, USA
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SpaceX
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.
Orbital Flight Test
Maiden flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle. The booster will separate 170 seconds into flight and return to land approximately 32 km off the shore in the Gulf of Mexico. The second stage will achieve orbit until performing a powered, targeted splashdown approximately 100 km off the northwest coast of Kauai (Hawaii).
Starship
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 0
Consecutive Success 0
Maiden Flight Unknown
Launch Failures 0
Core
Serial Booster 7
Status Active
Flight Proven No
Flights 0
Landing Attempt No
Landing Success Unknown
Type Ocean
Location GOM
Updates
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-03-16T23:56:32+0000
NET April
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-02-25T16:44:32+0000
March 11 launch date no longer certain.
Nosu
2023-02-12T18:11:31+0000
NET March 11
Jay
2023-02-05T03:06:23+0000
NET March
Nosu
2023-01-08T09:30:34+0000
NET late February
Cosmic_Penguin
2022-10-31T16:55:32+0000
NET December 2022
Cosmic_Penguin
2022-09-21T13:02:39+0000
Targeting November 2022 for first launch
Cosmic_Penguin
2022-09-15T03:01:50+0000
Launch no earlier than October 2022 with Starship/Superheavy on-pad testing still yet to complete.
Jay
2022-08-10T19:17:01+0000
Moving to NET September, pending vehicle readiness and FAA launch licence
Jay
2022-07-11T22:47:34+0000
Pushing to NET August pending vehicle readiness.
Cosmic_Penguin
2022-05-21T09:14:04+0000
Probably can be safely pushed back by a month pending Boca Chica launch pad EA approval.
Nosu
2022-03-21T19:22:14+0000
NET May 2022
Nosu
2022-02-14T18:40:46+0000
Release of the final FAA PEA for the Starship/Super Heavy Launch Vehicle Program at the Boca Chica launch site now planned for March 28, 2022.
Jay
2021-12-28T18:06:12+0000
NET March 2022
Nosu
2021-11-17T17:01:44+0000
NET early 2022
Programs
SpaceX Starship
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.
Related Events
Booster 7 Static Fire #1
2022-08-09T22:25:00+0000
SpaceX conducted a static fire test of Booster 7, the first static fire on the Orbital Launch Mount.
Starship S24 Static Fire #1
2022-08-10T01:20:00+0000
SpaceX conducted a Static Fire test on Starship S24.
Booster 7 Static Fire #2
2022-08-11T19:50:00+0000
SpaceX will conduct a static fire test on Booster 7.
Booster 7 Static Fire #3
2022-08-31T18:05:00+0000
SpaceX conducted an approximately 6 second static fire of Booster 7.
Starship S24 Static Fire #2
2022-09-08T21:30:40+0000
SpaceX conducted a 6 second static fire test of Ship 24 at their facility in Boca Chica, TX.
Booster 7 Static Fire #4
2022-09-19T17:47:00+0000
Booster 7 has performed a static fire of 7 engines.
Booster 7 33 Engines Static Fire
2023-02-09T21:12:00+0000
SpaceX performed a static fire of Super Heavy Booster 7 with 31 of its 31 Raptor engines. The test was planned to use all 33 Raptor engines, but one was shut down prior to ignition and another was shut down prematurely during the test.
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2023-02-22T08:57:03+0000
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