Starship | Integrated Flight Test 4
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Launch Window
June 6, 2024, noon - June 6, 2024, 2 p.m.
June 6, 2024, noon - June 6, 2024, 2 p.m.
Fourth test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle.
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Launch and reentry success.
Liftoff.
Unofficial Webcast by SPACE AFFAIRS has started
Updated T-0.
Adjusting planned T-0.
First development version of the Starship reusable two-stage super heavy-lift launch vehicle.
See DetailsBooster 11 made a soft splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico.
Result: Successful Ocean landing at Gulf of Mexico.Ship 29 (S29) is the 2nd stage vehicle used for the fourth Starship integrated flight test. Lost to the ocean after a successful soft splashdown.
Starship V1 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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