Integrated Flight Test 2
Starship
SpaceX
Mission
Integrated Flight Test 2
Type: Test Flight
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).
Trajectory
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Location
Orbital Launch Mount A
SpaceX Space Launch Facility, TX, USA
10 rockets have launched from SpaceX Space Launch Facility, TX, USA.
Rocket
Starship – SpaceX
- Family: Starship
- Length: 120 m
- Diameter: 9 m
- Launch Mass: 5000 T
- Low Earth Orbit Capacity: 100000 kg
The Starship was manufactured by SpaceX with the first launch on 2023-04-20. Starship has 0 successful launches and 1 failed launches with a total of 1 launches. Fully reusable two-stage super heavy-lift launch vehicle.
Core Landing
Booster 9 will splash down in the Gulf of Mexico following the second integrated test flight of Starship.
Gulf of Mexico – GOM
Gulf of Mexico
Ocean – Ocean
No recovery attempt
Agency
SpaceX – SpX
- Type: Commercial
- Abbreviation: SpX
- Administration: CEO: Elon Musk
- Founded: 2002
- Launchers: Falcon | Starship
- Spacecraft: Dragon
- Country: USA
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.
