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[TIME SUBJECT TO CHANGE] This is the seventh fully integrated test flight of Starship with its Super Heavy booster, the largest and most powerful rocket to ever fly. This is the first launch of the ne...

🚀 SpaceX Launches Starship Flight 7 and Attempts Another Booster Catch

SpaceX is preparing to launch the seventh Starship flight test. The window for the launch opens at 4 p.m. local time on Monday. The company has confirmed on its website, and X, that it is targeting a ...

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Flight 7

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Overview

Destination: Suborbital
Mission: Test Flight

Suborbital Orbital Launch Mount A SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
Booster 14 - Orbital Launch Mount A

Seventh test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle.

Telemetry

Launch trajectory and telemetry simulations provided by Flight Club - a rocket launch simulator and orbital trajectory visualiser for all things space!

Updates

hitura-nobad • Jan. 12, 2025, 5:23 a.m.

Now targeting Jan 15 at 22:00 UTC


Cosmic_Penguin • Jan. 8, 2025, 6:11 p.m.

GO for launch.


Cosmic_Penguin • Jan. 8, 2025, 12:21 p.m.

Delayed to NET January 13 per marine navigation warnings.


Cosmic_Penguin • Jan. 7, 2025, 2:32 p.m.

Delayed to NET January 11.


Cosmic_Penguin • Dec. 27, 2024, 1:30 p.m.

NET January 10.


Starship

Family:
Configuration:

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

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Specifications
  • Stages
    2
  • Length
    120.0 m
  • Diameter
    9.0 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    ―
  • Launch Mass
    5000.0 T
  • Thrust
    72000.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    Starship
  • Family
    ―
  • Variant
    ―
  • Alias
    ―
  • Full Name
    Starship
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
    ―
  • Low Earth Orbit
    100000.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
    21000.0 kg
  • Direct Geostationary
    ―
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity
    ―

Booster Info


Booster 14


Type: Core
Flight Proven: No

Landing Information

The Superheavy booster No. 14 will attempt returning back to the launch pad via catching at Starbase.

Landing Attempt Confirmed

Ship 33


Active Cargo Unmanned Payload Capacity: 100000 kg
Destination: Indian Ocean
Serial Number: S33

Ship 33 (S33) is the 2nd stage vehicle to be used for the seventh Starship flight test. It is also the first "Block 2" Starship spacecraft with lengthened propellant tanks and new designed forward flaps, among other enhancements.

Starship Details

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CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 443 Failures: 12 Pending: 111

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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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