Starship - Booster 7


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Status - Destroyed

Booster 7 is the first Super Heavy booster with 33 Raptor 2 engines and was used for the first Starship integrated flight test with Ship 24. Lost in a launch failure.

Starship | Integrated Flight Test

SpaceX | United States of America
SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
April 20, 2023, 1:33 p.m.
Status: Launch Failure
Mission:

Maiden flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle. The booster was supposed to separate 170 seconds into flight and return to land approximately 32 km off the shore in the Gulf of Mexico. The second stage would have followed a suborbital trajectory and performed an unpowered splashdown approximately 100 km off the northwest coast of Kauai (Hawaii). A launch failure was experienced before stage separation.

Suborbital Booster 7 - Maiden Flight Gulf of Mexico
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