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Starship: Integrated Flight Test 2

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).

Failure: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.
Saturday, 18 November 202313:02 UTC
Starship: Integrated Flight Test 2

Mission Data

SpaceX
🇺🇸SpaceXEst. 2002
Launch VehicleStarship V1
Vehicle FamilyStarship
Vehicle Record4 of 6 launches (66.7%)
Provider TypeCommercial
Agency Record729 successes / 15 failures (98%)
Success Streak229 consecutive
ProgramSpaceX Starship · Technology
Mission TypeTest Flight
Target OrbitSuborbital
Launch PadOrbital Launch Pad 1
Location🇺🇸 SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA USA
Agency Launches This Year#86
Launches From This Pad11
Launches From This Site23
Status Note

Either the launch vehicle reached orbit but did not deliver its payload in the targeted orbit, or an exceptional event made it impossible to consider the mission a success.

About Starship V1

First development version of the Starship reusable two-stage super heavy-lift launch vehicle.

Launch updates

  1. Updated failure reason.

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  2. Added launch time to the seconds.

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  3. Starship successfully performed stage separation, while the Booster and Ship were lost after separation and seconds before shutdown respectively.

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  4. Liftoff

  5. Countdown has resumed

  6. Holding at T-40 seconds

  7. Livestream has started

  8. launch delayed to saturday to replace a grid fin actuator.

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  9. 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).

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  10. Refined launch window.

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Launch Site

Orbital Launch Pad 1 · 25.9962°N 97.1544°W

Launch data from Launch Library 2 by The Space Devs.