Integrated Flight Test
Starship
SpaceX
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Trajectory
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Mission
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.
After liftoff, the vehicle sustained fires from leaking propellant in the aft end of the Super Heavy booster, severing connection with the vehicle’s primary flight computer. This led to a loss of communications to most of the booster engines and eventually control of the vehicle. After the second stage failed to separate from the first stage, the vehicle reached an apogee of ~39km before tumbling downwards until the flight termination system was activated.
Unexpected severe damage was also imparted on the launch pad.
Location
Orbital Launch Mount A
SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
Orbital Launch Mount A has witnessed the launch of 9 rockets, including 0 orbital launch attempts. While SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA, has been the site for 18 rocket launches.
Starbase is an industrial complex for Starship rockets and the headquarters of the American aerospace manufacturer company SpaceX. Located near Brownsville, Texas, United States, it has been under construction since the late 2010s by SpaceX. Starbase is composed of a spaceport near the Gulf of Mexico, a production facility at the Boca Chica village, and a small structure test site along the Texas State Highway 4.
Rocket
SpaceX Starship
Fully reusable two-stage super heavy-lift launch vehicle.
Landing
Core Booster 7
Booster 7 was expected to splash down in the Gulf of Mexico following the maiden flight of Starship, but was lost in a launch failure during ascent. 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
Agency
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.
