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Launched 2023-11-18 13:02:50 UTCOrbital Launch Pad 1, SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
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.
From Launch Library 2 · updated
Partial failure
Target: Suborbital
Starship V1 lifted off with Integrated Flight Test 2, but the launch was only a partial success.
Booster
Landing failed at Gulf of Mexico
Booster 9, 1st flight
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Waiting on the Cause
No cause has been given yet. What SpaceX finds will be added here, and to the updates below.
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).
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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Updated failure reason.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Added launch time to the seconds.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Starship successfully performed stage separation, while the Booster and Ship were lost after separation and seconds before shutdown respectively.
Nosu
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Liftoff
Nosu
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Countdown has resumed
Nosu
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Holding at T-40 seconds
Nosu
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Livestream has started
Launch Library 2
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launch delayed to saturday to replace a grid fin actuator.
hitura-nobad
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SpaceX has received the FAA license to launch Starship on its second test flight. Setting GO for the attempt on November 17 between 13:00 and 15:00 UTC (7-9am local).
Nosu
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Refined launch window.
Cosmic_Penguin
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NET November 17, pending final regulatory approval.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Refined daily launch window.
Cosmic_Penguin
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NET November 15 per marine navigation warnings.
Nosu
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NET November 13 per marine navigation warnings.
Cosmic_Penguin
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SpaceX is targeting NET Mid-November for the second flight of Starship. This is subject to regulatory approval, which is currently pending.
Jay
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Targeting November 2023, pending regulatory approval.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Moving to NET October awaiting regulatory paperwork approval.
Cosmic_Penguin
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IFT-2 is NET August according to a tweet from Elon. This is a highly tentative timeline, and delays are possible, and highly likely. Pad upgrades should be complete by the end of June, with vehicle testing starting soon after.
Jay
Height
121.3m
Diameter
9m
To low Earth orbit
15,000kg
Liftoff thrust
73,550kN
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