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Booster Caught- Starship Loss - SpaceX - Test Flight 7 - OLP-A - Starbase Texas - January 16, 2025

Launch Date: January 16, 2025 Launch Time: 4:37 p.m. CT, 5:37 ET; 2237 UTC, 23:37 CET. Launch Window: Opens at 4:00 p.m. CT and closes at 5:00 p.m. CT. Launch Status: Scheduled and announced Launc...

Starship's Seventh Flight Test

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[4K] Watch SpaceX Try To Catch Starship's Super Heavy Booster!

[TIME SUBJECT TO CHANGE] This is the seventh fully integrated test flight of Starship with its Super Heavy booster, the largest and most powerful rocket to ever fly. This is the first launch of the ne...

Watch live: SpaceX launches Starship on 7th test flight, tries to catch returning booster

Watch live as a SpaceX Super Heavy booster and Starship launch on its 7th test flight featuring another attempt to catch a returning booster with the chopsticks on launch pad tower, nicknamed 'Mechazi...

🚀 SpaceX Launches Starship Flight 7 and Attempts Another Booster Catch

SpaceX is preparing to launch the seventh Starship flight test. The window for the launch opens at 4 p.m. local time on Monday. The company has confirmed on its website, and X, that it is targeting a ...

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Flight 7

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Overview

Destination: Suborbital
Mission: Test Flight

Suborbital Orbital Launch Pad 1 SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
Booster 14 - Orbital Launch Mount A

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

Telemetry

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Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • Jan. 16, 2025, 11:12 p.m.

Ship 33 failed late in ascent.


Cosmic_Penguin • Jan. 16, 2025, 10:37 p.m.

Liftoff.


LL2 • Jan. 16, 2025, 9:57 p.m.

Unofficial Webcast by SPACE AFFAIRS has started


Cosmic_Penguin • Jan. 16, 2025, 8:25 p.m.

New T-0.


juststephen • Jan. 15, 2025, 3:21 p.m.

GO for launch.


Starship

Family:
Configuration: V2

Second development version of the Starship reusable two-stage super heavy-lift launch vehicle.

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Specifications
  • Stages
    2
  • Length
    123.3 m
  • Diameter
    9.0 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    9.0 m
  • Launch Mass
    5000.0 T
  • Thrust
    73550.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    Starship
  • Family
    ―
  • Variant
    V2
  • Alias
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  • Full Name
    Starship V2
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
    ―
  • Low Earth Orbit
    35000.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
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  • Direct Geostationary
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  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity
    ―

Booster Info


Booster 14

Status: Destroyed


Type: Core
Flight Proven: No
First Flight: January 16, 2025
Last Flight: May 27, 2025
Flights: 2
Landings Attempted: 2
Landings Successful: 1

Landing Information

The Superheavy booster No. 14 was successfully caught by the launch pad tower.

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

Ship 33


In-active Cargo Unmanned Payload Capacity: 35000 kg
Destination: Indian Ocean
Serial Number: S33

Ship 33 (S33) was the 2nd stage vehicle used for the seventh Starship flight test. It was also the first "Block 2" Starship spacecraft with lengthened propellant tanks and new designed forward flaps, among other enhancements. It was lost before SECO during ascent.

Starship V2 Details

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