Starship | Integrated Flight Test 6
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Launch Window
Nov. 19, 2024, 10 p.m. - Nov. 19, 2024, 10:30 p.m.
Nov. 19, 2024, 10 p.m. - Nov. 19, 2024, 10:30 p.m.
Sixth test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle.
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Added launch.
GO for launch on November 19.
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Liftoff.
Starship has splashed down in the planned location.
Fully reusable two-stage super heavy-lift launch vehicle.
See DetailsThe 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 (S31) is the 2nd stage vehicle, used for the sixth Starship integrated flight test.
Starship DetailsSpace 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.
INFO WIKI
SpaceX completed a significant milestone in the Starship program with Flight 5 and is set to try to repeat it for Flight 6. Both vehicles are now Static-Fired and ready for integrated testing ahead of a potential November launch.
SpaceX has scheduled its next Starship test flight for as soon as Nov. 18, making incremental changes since the previous flight in October.
Starship will launch during the late afternoon so its descent into Indian Ocean is visible.
This will be the fastest turnaround for the Starship program as SpaceX works towards what needs to become a weekly launch cadence for NASA's Artemis program. Liftoff is set for no earlier than 4 p.m. CST (5 p.m. EST, 2200 UTC) on Nov. 18.
Work on the orbital launch mount and Pad B continues, the final Block 1 ship expected to fly is preparing for launch, and Booster 13 is expected to roll out for full-stack testing any day. Considerable changes have occurred in the short ti…
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Progress resupply mission to the International Space Station.
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