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Launched 2023-04-20 13:33:09 UTCOrbital Launch Pad 1, SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
After liftoff, the vehicle sustained fires from leaking propellant in the aft end of the Super Heavy booster, severing connection with the vehicle’s primary flight computer. This led to a loss of communications to most of the booster engines and eventually control of the vehicle. After the second stage failed to separate from the first stage, the vehicle reached an apogee of ~39km before tumbling downwards until the flight termination system was activated. Unexpected severe damage was also imparted on the launch pad.
From Launch Library 2 · confirmed as a launch failure
Launch failure
Target: Suborbital
Starship V1 lifted off with Integrated Flight Test, but the launch failed.
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No cause has been given yet. What SpaceX finds will be added here, and to the updates below.
Maiden flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle. The booster was supposed to separate 170 seconds into flight and return to land approximately 32 km off the shore in the Gulf of Mexico. The second stage would have followed a suborbital trajectory and performed an unpowered splashdown approximately 100 km off the northwest coast of Kauai (Hawaii). A launch failure was experienced before stage separation.
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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Liftoff
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Resuming countdown
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Hold
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Livestream has started
Launch Library 2
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Confirmed next launch attempt on April 20.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Flight restriction for Wednesday has been cancelled, indicating a delay. Next possible window is Thursday, April 20th
Jay
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Adjusting window based on FAA advisory. Awaiting confirmation from SpaceX, and window end time is uncertain
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Next opportunity on April 19.
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Scrub due to a first stage pressurization issue. Next opportunity 24 hours later.
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Livestream has started
Launch Library 2
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Updating T-0 to 13:20 UTC
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1 hour slip in target T-0
Cosmic_Penguin
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Refined launch window.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Setting GO. SpaceX has received their FAA launch licence
Jay
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SpaceX has confirmed they are targeting Monday, April 17th for the Starship Integrated Flight Test. A live broadcast will begin at approx. T-45 minutes, but with the nature of the flight timelines are highly subject to change.
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Setting window
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Moving to NET mid third week of April and removed launch window pending confirmation from FAA advisory
Jay
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SpaceX will conduct a Wet Dress Rehearsal next week, with a launch NET the following week (April 17), pending regulatory approval.
Jay
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Moving back to NET April. A road closure filing for April 10-13 states non-flight activities on those days.
Jay
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Tweak in potential launch window.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Starship Orbital Flight Test scheduled NET April 10 per the latest FAA Operations Plan Advisory and NASA WB-57 schedule. Still TBD pending the FAA launch license and technical readiness.
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NET April
Cosmic_Penguin
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March 11 launch date no longer certain.
Cosmic_Penguin
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NET March 11
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NET March
Jay
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NET late February
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NET December 2022
Cosmic_Penguin
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Targeting November 2022 for first launch
Cosmic_Penguin
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Launch no earlier than October 2022 with Starship/Superheavy on-pad testing still yet to complete.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Moving to NET September, pending vehicle readiness and FAA launch licence
Jay
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Pushing to NET August pending vehicle readiness.
Jay
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Probably can be safely pushed back by a month pending Boca Chica launch pad EA approval.
Cosmic_Penguin
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NET May 2022
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Release of the final FAA PEA for the Starship/Super Heavy Launch Vehicle Program at the Boca Chica launch site now planned for March 28, 2022.
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NET March 2022
Jay
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NET early 2022
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Height
121.3m
Diameter
9m
To low Earth orbit
15,000kg
Liftoff thrust
73,550kN
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