Integrated Flight Test 4

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Overview

Destination: Suborbital
Mission: Test Flight

Suborbital Orbital Launch Mount A SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
Booster 11 - Gulf of Mexico

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

Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • March 19, 2024, 1:57 p.m.

NET early May.



Starship

Family: Starship
Configuration:

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

See Starship Details
Specifications
  • Stages
    2
  • Length
    120.0 m
  • Diameter
    9.0 m
  • Fairing Diameter
  • Launch Mass
    5000 T
  • Thrust
    72000 kN
Family
  • Name
    Starship
  • Family
    Starship
  • Variant
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Starship
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
    100000 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
    21000 kg
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

Booster Info


Booster 11


Type: Core
Flight Proven: No

Landing Information

Booster 11 will attempt a controlled descent onto the Gulf of Mexico.

Landing Attempt Confirmed

Ship 29


Active Cargo Unmanned Payload Capacity: 100000 kg
Destination: Indian Ocean
Serial Number: S29

Ship 29 (S29) is the 2nd stage vehicle to be used for the fourth Starship integrated flight test.

Starship Details

SpaceX

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CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 342 Failures: 11 Pending: 137

Agency Type: Commercial

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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