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Ship 30

Ship 30

Photo Credit: SpaceX

  • Serial Number: S30
  • In Space: No
  • Height: 50 m
  • Diameter: 9 m
  • Status: Destroyed

Launch

The Ship 30 spacecraft embarked on 1 flight(s), showcasing its capability of More than 100 tons to Earth orbit and designed with a flight life of Unknown at this stage. Notably, it boasts a crew capacity accommodating up to unknown astronauts and a payload capacity of 100000 kg. Ship 30 (S30) is the 2nd stage vehicle used for the fifth Starship integrated flight test. Lost to the ocean after a successful soft splashdown.

Second stage of the two-stage Starship super heavy-lift launch vehicle.

History

The Starship second stage was testing during a number of low and high altitude suborbital flights before the first orbital launch 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.

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