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Starship | Integrated Flight Test

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SpaceX Starbase, 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.

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Integrated Flight Test

Maiden flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle. The booster was supposed to separate 170 seconds into flight and return to land approximately 32 km off the shore in the Gulf of Mexico. The second stage would have followed a suborbital trajectory and performed an unpowered splashdown approximately 100 km off the northwest coast of Kauai (Hawaii). A launch failure was experienced before stage separation.

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Ship 24

Serial S24

Launch Crew Count 0

Status Destroyed

Landing Time 2023-04-20T13:37:00+0000

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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 3

Consecutive Success 3

Maiden Flight 2023-04-20

Launch Failures 2

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Core

Serial Booster 7

Status destroyed

Flight Proven Yes

Flights 1

Landing Attempt No

Landing Success Unknown

Type Ocean

Location GOM

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Nosu

2023-04-20T13:43:03+0000

Launch failure

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Nosu

2023-04-20T13:33:48+0000

Liftoff

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Nosu

2023-04-20T13:32:54+0000

Resuming countdown

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Nosu

2023-04-20T13:28:41+0000

Hold

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LL2

2023-04-20T12:49:08+0000

Livestream has started

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Cosmic_Penguin

2023-04-17T23:38:14+0000

Confirmed next launch attempt on April 20.

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Jay

2023-04-17T21:50:35+0000

Flight restriction for Wednesday has been cancelled, indicating a delay. Next possible window is Thursday, April 20th

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Jay

2023-04-17T17:55:50+0000

Adjusting window based on FAA advisory. Awaiting confirmation from SpaceX, and window end time is uncertain

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Nosu

2023-04-17T13:20:46+0000

Next opportunity on April 19.

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Nosu

2023-04-17T13:14:29+0000

Scrub due to a first stage pressurization issue. Next opportunity 24 hours later.

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LL2

2023-04-17T12:35:50+0000

Livestream has started

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Nosu

2023-04-17T11:41:59+0000

Updating T-0 to 13:20 UTC

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Cosmic_Penguin

2023-04-17T01:06:17+0000

1 hour slip in target T-0

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Cosmic_Penguin

2023-04-14T23:17:47+0000

Refined launch window.

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Jay

2023-04-14T22:17:11+0000

Setting GO. SpaceX has received their FAA launch licence

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Jay

2023-04-11T19:57:19+0000

SpaceX has confirmed they are targeting Monday, April 17th for the Starship Integrated Flight Test. A live broadcast will begin at approx. T-45 minutes, but with the nature of the flight timelines are highly subject to change.

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Jay

2023-04-10T16:19:36+0000

Setting window

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Jay

2023-04-10T13:56:06+0000

Moving to NET mid third week of April and removed launch window pending confirmation from FAA advisory

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Jay

2023-04-06T18:56:57+0000

SpaceX will conduct a Wet Dress Rehearsal next week, with a launch NET the following week (April 17), pending regulatory approval.

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Jay

2023-04-05T15:17:51+0000

Moving back to NET April. A road closure filing for April 10-13 states non-flight activities on those days.

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Cosmic_Penguin

2023-04-05T02:47:40+0000

Tweak in potential launch window.

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Nosu

2023-04-04T18:54:54+0000

Starship Orbital Flight Test scheduled NET April 10 per the latest FAA Operations Plan Advisory and NASA WB-57 schedule. Still TBD pending the FAA launch license and technical readiness.

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Cosmic_Penguin

2023-03-16T23:56:32+0000

NET April

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Cosmic_Penguin

2023-02-25T16:44:32+0000

March 11 launch date no longer certain.

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Nosu

2023-02-12T18:11:31+0000

NET March 11

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Jay

2023-02-05T03:06:23+0000

NET March

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Nosu

2023-01-08T09:30:34+0000

NET late February

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Cosmic_Penguin

2022-10-31T16:55:32+0000

NET December 2022

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Cosmic_Penguin

2022-09-21T13:02:39+0000

Targeting November 2022 for first launch

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Cosmic_Penguin

2022-09-15T03:01:50+0000

Launch no earlier than October 2022 with Starship/Superheavy on-pad testing still yet to complete.

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Jay

2022-08-10T19:17:01+0000

Moving to NET September, pending vehicle readiness and FAA launch licence

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Jay

2022-07-11T22:47:34+0000

Pushing to NET August pending vehicle readiness.

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Cosmic_Penguin

2022-05-21T09:14:04+0000

Probably can be safely pushed back by a month pending Boca Chica launch pad EA approval.

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Nosu

2022-03-21T19:22:14+0000

NET May 2022

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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.

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Jay

2021-12-28T18:06:12+0000

NET March 2022

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Nosu

2021-11-17T17:01:44+0000

NET early 2022

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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.

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Booster 7 33 Engines Static Fire

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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