Flight 9

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Overview

Destination: Suborbital
Mission: Test Flight

Suborbital Orbital Launch Mount A SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
Booster 14 - Orbital Launch Mount A

9th test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle.

Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • May 13, 2025, 4:49 a.m.

NET May TBD.


hitura-nobad • April 3, 2025, 8:26 p.m.

Added launch.


Starship

Family:
Configuration:

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

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Specifications
  • Stages
    2
  • Length
    120.0 m
  • Diameter
    9.0 m
  • Fairing Diameter
  • Launch Mass
    5000.0 T
  • Thrust
    72000.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    Starship
  • Family
  • Variant
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Starship
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
    100000.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
    21000.0 kg
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

Booster Info


Booster 14

Status: Active


Type: Core
Flight Proven: Yes
First Flight: January 16, 2025
Last Flight: January 16, 2025
Flights: 1
Landings Attempted: 1
Landings Successful: 1
Previous Booster 14 Flights

Landing Information

Super Heavy Booster 14-2 will attempt to be caught by the tower on the OLM-A.

Landing Attempt Confirmed

Ship 35


Active Cargo Unmanned Payload Capacity: 100000 kg
Destination: Suborbital
Serial Number: S35

Ship 35 (S35) is the 2nd stage vehicle to be used for the ninth Starship flight test. It is the third "Block 2" Starship spacecraft with lengthened propellant tanks and forward flaps with a new design, among other enhancements.

Starship Details

SpaceX

SpaceX

(SpX)

CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 492 Failures: 14 Pending: 118

Agency Type:

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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Orbital Launch Mount A


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Success
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Falcon 9
Success
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Falcon 9
Success
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Falcon 9
Success
1 week, 2 days ago
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Falcon 9
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Firefly Alpha
Failure
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