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A similar test occurred during Starship's third test flight, though the transfer during that test was between two tanks on the same vehicle. [2] The ability to refuel a Starship in low orbit is critical for the Artemis program, [3] as Starship HLS requires approximately ten tanker launches to reach the lunar surface. [1]
Starship flight test 7 was the seventh flight test of a SpaceX Starship launch vehicle. Flight 7 lifted off from Orbital Launch Pad A (OLP-A) on January 16, 2025, at 22:37:00 UTC (4:37 pm CST , local time) at the Starbase launch site in Texas.
Starship SN5: Suborbital Pad A 343 days 150 m (490 ft) [20] 00:51 [22] Success Success Second 150-meter hop, and first hop of a full Starship prototype. [23] [24] 4 3 September 2020 17:47 [25] Starship SN6: Suborbital Pad A 30 days 150 m (490 ft) [26] 00:52 [27] Success Success Third 150-meter hop, and second hop of a full Starship prototype ...
The third flight test of Starship included a full-duration burn of the second-stage engines, an internal propellant-transfer demonstration, and a test of the Starlink dispenser door. If the test sequence had progressed further, additional tests would have included an in-space relight followed by a hard splashdown of the ship in the Indian Ocean ...
The rapid test schedule forms part of SpaceX’s goal of demonstrating a “significant number” of successful Starship launches in order to ready it for the first crewed missions.
SpaceX has turned heads and tested boundaries with each test flight of Starship, the most powerful rocket system ever constructed. And the latest mission of the nearly 400-foot-tall (121-meter ...
Starship flight test 3 — — Success Failure (ocean) Destroyed Ship 29: Block 1: 1 June 6, 2024 Starship flight test 4 — — Success Controlled (ocean) Expended Ship 30: Block 1: 1 October 13, 2024 Starship flight test 5 — — Success Controlled (ocean) Expended Ship 31: Block 1: 1 November 19, 2024 Starship flight test 6 — Stuffed ...
SpaceX’s Starship rocket pictured at the Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas, on 3 June, 2024 (Elon Musk/ X) ... Texas, on Wednesday, in what will be a critical test of the billionaire’s ...