Starship | Integrated Flight Test 3
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Launch Window
March 14, 2024, noon - March 14, 2024, 1:50 p.m.
March 14, 2024, noon - March 14, 2024, 1:50 p.m.
Third test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle.
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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.
Liftoff
T-0 now 13:25 UTC
Fully reusable two-stage super heavy-lift launch vehicle.
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Landing burn of Booster 10 failed.
Result: Booster 10 did not land successfully.
Ship 28 (S28) was lost during atmospheric re-entry at the end of the third integrated flight test.
Starship DetailsSpace 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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