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Integrated Flight Test 4

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Overview

Destination: Suborbital
Mission: Test Flight

Suborbital Orbital Launch Mount A SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA Probability: 95%
Booster 11 - Gulf of Mexico

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

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Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • June 6, 2024, 2:06 p.m.

Launch and reentry success.


Cosmic_Penguin • June 6, 2024, 12:50 p.m.

Liftoff.


LL2 • June 6, 2024, 12:12 p.m.

Unofficial Webcast by SPACE AFFAIRS has started


Cosmic_Penguin • June 6, 2024, 11:10 a.m.

Updated T-0.


Cosmic_Penguin • June 6, 2024, 9:59 a.m.

Adjusting planned T-0.


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 11

Status: Lost


Type: Core
Flight Proven: No
First Flight: June 6, 2024
Last Flight: June 6, 2024
Flights: 1
Landings Attempted: 1
Landings Successful: 1

Landing Information

Booster 11 made a soft splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico.

Result: Successful Ocean landing at Gulf of Mexico.

Ship 29


Active Cargo Unmanned Payload Capacity: 100000 kg
Destination: Indian Ocean
Serial Number: S29

Ship 29 (S29) is the 2nd stage vehicle used for the fourth Starship integrated flight test. Lost to the ocean after a successful soft splashdown.

Starship Details

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CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 432 Failures: 12 Pending: 111

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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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