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SpaceX - Starship Suborbital Test Flight 6 - OLP-A - Starbase, Texas - November 19, 2024

Launch Date: November 19, 2024 Launch Time: 4:00 p.m. CT, 5:00 p.m. ET, 2200 UTC, 23:00 CET Launch Window: Opens 4:00 p.m. CT - 30 Minutes Launch Status: Mission in Preparation and announced Launch P...

Starship's Sixth Flight Test

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[TIME SUBJECT TO CHANGE] This is the sixth fully integrated test flight of Starship with its Super Heavy booster, the largest and most powerful rocket to ever fly. It produces over twice as much thrus...

🔴FULL REPLAY: SpaceX Launches Starship Flight 6 (Booster Catch Aborted)

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

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Integrated Flight Test 6

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Overview

Destination: Suborbital
Mission: Test Flight

Suborbital Orbital Launch Mount A SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
Booster 13 - Orbital Launch Mount A

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

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Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • Nov. 19, 2024, 11:10 p.m.

Starship has splashed down in the planned location.


Cosmic_Penguin • Nov. 19, 2024, 10 p.m.

Liftoff.


LL2 • Nov. 19, 2024, 9:15 p.m.

Unofficial Webcast by SPACE AFFAIRS has started


Cosmic_Penguin • Nov. 16, 2024, 3:17 a.m.

GO for launch on November 19.


Nosu • Nov. 6, 2024, 6:49 p.m.

NET November 18


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 13


Type: Core
Flight Proven: No
First Flight: November 19, 2024
Last Flight: November 19, 2024
Flights: 1
Landings Attempted: 1

Landing Information

The Superheavy booster No. 13 did not attempt a return back to the launch site at Starbase and splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico instead, due to hardware problems on the launch and catch tower triggering an abort.

Result: Booster 13 did not land successfully.

Ship 31


Active Cargo Unmanned Payload Capacity: 100000 kg
Destination: Indian Ocean
Serial Number: S31

Ship 31 (S31) is the 2nd stage vehicle, used for the sixth Starship integrated flight test.

Starship Details

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CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 445 Failures: 13 Pending: 109

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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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