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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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[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...

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Flight 7

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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

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

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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:

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
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  • Variant
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  • Alias
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  • Full Name
    Starship
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
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  • 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: No
First Flight: January 16, 2025
Last Flight: January 16, 2025
Flights: 1
Landings Attempted: 1
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


Active Cargo Unmanned Payload Capacity: 100000 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 Details

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CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 459 Failures: 13 Pending: 114

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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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