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SpaceX Launches Third Starship Flight Test

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[TIME SUBJECT TO CHANGE] This is the third fully integrated full stack test flight of Starship and the mighty Super Heavy booster, the largest and most powerful rocket to ever fly. It produces over tw...

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Integrated Flight Test 3

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Overview

Destination: Suborbital
Mission: Test Flight

Suborbital Orbital Launch Pad 1 SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA Probability: 70%
Booster 10 - Gulf of Mexico

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

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Updates

Nosu • March 14, 2024, 2:43 p.m.

Successful launch of Starship on a nominal suborbital trajectory all the way to atmospheric re-entry, which it did not survive. Super Heavy experienced a hard water landing due to multiple Raptor engines failing to reignite.


hitura-nobad • March 14, 2024, 1:25 p.m.

Liftoff


hitura-nobad • March 14, 2024, 12:25 p.m.

T-0 now 13:25 UTC


hitura-nobad • March 14, 2024, 12:05 p.m.

T-0 now 13:10 UTC due to boats in the keep out zone


Cosmic_Penguin • March 14, 2024, 11:52 a.m.

New T-0.


Starship

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Configuration: V1

First development version of the Starship reusable two-stage super heavy-lift launch vehicle.

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Specifications
  • Stages
    2
  • Length
    121.3 m
  • Diameter
    9.0 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    9.0 m
  • Launch Mass
    5000.0 T
  • Thrust
    73550.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    Starship
  • Family
  • Variant
    V1
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Starship V1
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
    15000.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

Booster Info


Booster 10


Type: Core
Flight Proven: No
First Flight: March 14, 2024
Last Flight: March 14, 2024
Flights: 1
Landings Attempted: 1

Landing Information

Landing burn of Booster 10 failed.

Result: Booster 10 did not land successfully.

Ship 28


In-active Cargo Unmanned
Destination: Indian Ocean
Serial Number: S28

Ship 28 (S28) was lost during atmospheric re-entry at the end of the third integrated flight test.

Starship V1 Details

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