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SpaceX - Starship - Suborbital Test Flight 9 - OLP-A - Starbase Texas - May 27, 2025

Launch Date: March 27, 2025 (CDT) Launch Status: The launch window will open at 6:30 p.m. CDT, 2330 UTC - May 28, 01:30 CEST. Launch Window: Open until 8:00 p.m. CDT Status: On time lift-off - reach...

Watch live: SpaceX launches Starship mission on critical 9th test flight

Watch live as a Super Heavy booster and Starship launch on a critical test flight for SpaceX's fully reusable rocket, following two consecutive failures of the Starship upper stage. Liftoff of the 9t...

SpaceX Starship Flight 9

The first launch attempt for Starship Flight 9 with Booster 14-2 and Ship 35 from Pad A, Starbase, Earth. The window for the launch opens at 18:30 local time (23:30 UTC) on Tuesday, May 27. This mis...

Starship's Ninth Flight Test

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[TIME SUBJECT TO CHANGE] SpaceX is launching the 9th full stack Starship with its Super Heavy booster featuring the first booster re-use! They'll be reflying Booster 14 which previously flew on Flight...

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Flight 9

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Overview

Destination: Suborbital
Mission: Test Flight

Suborbital Orbital Launch Pad 1 SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
Booster 14 - Gulf of Mexico

9th test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle.

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Launch trajectory and telemetry simulations provided by Flight Club - a rocket launch simulator and orbital trajectory visualiser for all things space!

Updates

Nosu • May 28, 2025, 1:39 p.m.

Successful ascent, but the Ship lost attitude control after SECO due to a leak, making it unable to achieve its on-trajectory objectives.


Cosmic_Penguin • May 27, 2025, 11:36 p.m.

Liftoff.


Cosmic_Penguin • May 27, 2025, 11:29 p.m.

Hold at T-40s.


Cosmic_Penguin • May 27, 2025, 10:40 p.m.

Tweaked launch window.


Cosmic_Penguin • May 23, 2025, 3:26 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
  • 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 14

Status: Destroyed


Type: Core
Flight Proven: Yes
First Flight: January 16, 2025
Last Flight: May 27, 2025
Flights: 2
Landings Attempted: 2
Landings Successful: 1
Previous Booster 14 Flights

Landing Information

Super Heavy Booster 14-2 did not made a planned splashdown near the launch site after disintegrating at landing burn start-up.

Result: Booster 14 did not land successfully.

Ship 35


Active Cargo Unmanned Payload Capacity: 100000 kg
Destination: Suborbital
Serial Number: S35

Ship 35 (S35) is the 2nd stage vehicle used for the ninth Starship flight test. It is the third "Block 2" Starship spacecraft with lengthened propellant tanks and forward flaps with a new design, among other enhancements. The spacecraft lost attitude control during its sub-orbital flight and burnt up during re-entry.

Starship V2 Details

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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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