Starship - Booster 18

Details

Status - Destroyed

First Block 3 Super Heavy booster with various enhancements including Raptor 3 engines, integrated interstage and 3 grid fins instead of 4 used. Originally planned for usage on the 12th Starship flight test, but was written off after severely damaged during gas system pressure testing on 21 November 2025.

Flight Record

No spaceflights found for Booster 18.

Recent Launches

Falcon 9

Success

17 hours, 12 minutes ago

Starlink Group 15-11

Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

A batch of 27 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

Kinetica 1

Success

1 day ago

9 satellites

Launch Area 130 - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Share ride of 9 satellites to sun-synchronous orbit: * Satellite 813 (United Arab Emirates) * Jilin-1 Gaofen 07B-01/07C-01/07D-01 * Dongpo-15 …

Falcon 9

Success

1 day, 9 hours ago

NROL-77

Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Classified payload for the US National Reconnaissance Office.

Long March 3B/E

Success

1 day, 13 hours ago

TJSW-22

Launch Complex 3 (LC-3/LA-1) - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Chinese classified satellite claimed to be for communication technology test purposes. Actual mission not known.

Long March 4B

Success

2 days, 1 hour ago

Yaogan 47

Launch Area 94 (SLS-2 / 603) - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

The Yaogan 47 is a Chinese military “remote sensing” satellite of unknown purposes.