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Watch live: SpaceX launches Starship on 5th test flight, attempts to catch returning booster

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đź”´FULL REPLAY: SpaceX Launches Starship Flight 5 (and Catches A Booster)

SpaceX is preparing the launch of the fifth Starship flight test. The window for the launch opens at 7 a.m. local time on Sunday. The company has confirmed on its website, and X, that it is targeting ...

Starship's Fifth Flight Test

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Integrated Flight Test 5

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Overview

Destination: Suborbital
Mission: Test Flight

Suborbital Orbital Launch Pad 1 SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
Booster 12 - Orbital Launch Mount A

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

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

Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • Oct. 13, 2024, 1:38 p.m.

Mission success.


Cosmic_Penguin • Oct. 13, 2024, 12:25 p.m.

Liftoff.


LL2 • Oct. 13, 2024, 11:38 a.m.

Unofficial Re-stream by SPACE AFFAIRS has started


Cosmic_Penguin • Oct. 13, 2024, 11:22 a.m.

New T-0.


Cosmic_Penguin • Oct. 12, 2024, 4:55 p.m.

Updated launch window.


Starship

Family:
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
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  • Full Name
    Starship V1
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
    ―
  • Low Earth Orbit
    15000.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
    ―
  • Direct Geostationary
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  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity
    ―

Booster Info


Booster 12

Status: Retired


Type: Core
Flight Proven: No
First Flight: October 13, 2024
Last Flight: October 13, 2024
Flights: 1
Landings Attempted: 1
Landings Successful: 1

Landing Information

The Superheavy booster No. 12 has successfully returned to the launch site at Starbase.

Result: Successful Return to Launch Site landing at Orbital Launch Mount A.

Ship 30


In-active Cargo Unmanned
Destination: Indian Ocean
Serial Number: S30

Ship 30 (S30) is the 2nd stage vehicle used for the fifth Starship integrated flight test. Lost to the ocean after a successful soft splashdown.

Starship V1 Details

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