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Starship's Fifth Flight Test

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Integrated Flight Test 5

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Overview

Destination: Suborbital
Mission: Test Flight

Suborbital Orbital Launch Pad 1 SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
Booster 12 - Orbital Launch Mount A

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

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Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • Oct. 13, 2024, 1:38 p.m.

Mission success.


Cosmic_Penguin • Oct. 13, 2024, 12:25 p.m.

Liftoff.


LL2 • Oct. 13, 2024, 11:38 a.m.

Unofficial Re-stream by SPACE AFFAIRS has started


Cosmic_Penguin • Oct. 13, 2024, 11:22 a.m.

New T-0.


Cosmic_Penguin • Oct. 12, 2024, 4:55 p.m.

Updated launch window.


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 12

Status: Retired


Type: Core
Flight Proven: No
First Flight: October 13, 2024
Last Flight: October 13, 2024
Flights: 1
Landings Attempted: 1
Landings Successful: 1

Landing Information

The Superheavy booster No. 12 has successfully returned to the launch site at Starbase.

Result: Successful Return to Launch Site landing at Orbital Launch Mount A.

Ship 30


In-active Cargo Unmanned
Destination: Indian Ocean
Serial Number: S30

Ship 30 (S30) is the 2nd stage vehicle used for the fifth Starship integrated flight test. Lost to the ocean after a successful soft splashdown.

Starship V1 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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