Starship | Integrated Flight Test 2

Launch was a Partial Failure

Flight termination system activated on Starship after T+8 minutes, seconds before planned SECO, due to a leak of liquid oxygen causing a combustion event and fires which led to a loss of communication. Booster was destroyed during the boost-back burn. most likely due to a filter blockage on a liquid oxygen line supplying the engines. Most planned primary objectives achieved.

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Launch Window

Nov. 18, 2023, 1 p.m. - Nov. 18, 2023, 1:20 p.m.

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Integrated Flight Test 2

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Overview

Destination: Suborbital
Mission: Test Flight

Suborbital Orbital Launch Mount A SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
Booster 9 - Gulf of Mexico

Second test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle. The booster is expected to separate 170 seconds into flight and return to land approximately 32 km off the shore in the Gulf of Mexico. The second stage will follow a suborbital trajectory and perform an unpowered splashdown approximately 100 km off the northwest coast of Kauai (Hawaii).

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Updates
Cosmic_Penguin • Feb. 27, 2024, 2:01 a.m.

Updated failure reason.

Link https://twitter.com/spacex/status/1762237289231757406
Cosmic_Penguin • Nov. 19, 2023, 3:17 a.m.

Added launch time to the seconds.

Link https://twitter.com/Alexphysics13/status/1726068815652425806
Nosu • Nov. 18, 2023, 2:20 p.m.

Starship successfully performed stage separation, while the Booster and Ship were lost after separation and seconds before shutdown respectively.

Link https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1725879726479450297
Nosu • Nov. 18, 2023, 1:03 p.m.

Liftoff

Link https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1dRKZEWQvrXxB
Nosu • Nov. 18, 2023, 1:02 p.m.

Countdown has resumed

Link https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1dRKZEWQvrXxB
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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
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  • 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
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  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity
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Booster Info

Booster 9

Type: Core
Flight Proven: No
First Flight: November 18, 2023
Last Flight: November 18, 2023
Flights: 1
Landings Attempted: 1

Landing Information

Booster 9 was expected to splash down in the Gulf of Mexico following the second integrated test flight of Starship, but was lost after stage separation.

Result: Booster 9 did not land successfully.

Ship 25

Active Cargo Unmanned Payload Capacity: 100000 kg
Destination: Pacific Ocean
Serial Number: S25

Ship 25 (S25) used for the second integrated flight test. Lost before engine cutoff.

Starship Details

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CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 474 Failures: 14 Pending: 108

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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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