Integrated Flight Test

Integrated Flight Test

• Type: Test Flight
• Orbit: Suborbital

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.

Orbital Launch Mount A

SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA

Orbital Launch Mount A has witnessed the launch of 3 rockets, including 0 orbital launch attempts, while SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA, has been the site for 12 rocket launches.

SpaceX Starship

Fully reusable two-stage super heavy-lift launch vehicle.

Core Booster 7

Booster Booster 7 last launched 04/20/2023 and has seen 0 successful launches and landings. Booster 7 is the first Super Heavy booster with 33 Raptor 2 engines and was used for the first Starship integrated flight test with Ship 24. Lost in a launch failure.

Gulf of Mexico – GOM

Gulf of Mexico

Ocean – Ocean

No recovery attempt

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.