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Starship flight test 5 was the fifth flight test of a SpaceX Starship launch vehicle. SpaceX performed the flight test on October 13, 2024. The prototype vehicles flown were the Starship Ship 30 upper-stage and Super Heavy Booster 12 .
SpaceX's Starship completed its fifth flight test on Sunday. The company achieved its main goal of catching the booster back at the launch site. The upper stage also returned to Earth, landing in ...
The rocket's first stage "Super Heavy" booster lifted off at 7:25 a.m. CT (1225 GMT) from SpaceX's Boca Chica, Texas launch facilities, sending the Starship second stage rocket toward space before ...
SpaceX calls the entire launch vehicle "Starship", which consists of the Super Heavy first stage (booster) and the ambiguously-named Starship second stage (ship). [4] There are three versions of Starship: Block 1 (also known as Starship 1, Version 1, or V1) which is retired, Block 2 which will fly in Starship flight test 7 , and Block 3 , which ...
The inaugural test launch of a Starship and Super Heavy — called an integrated test flight — took off in April 2023. That launch aimed solely to get the 397-foot (121-meter) vehicle off the ...
When stacked and fully fueled, Starship has a mass of approximately 5,000 t (11,000,000 lb), [c] a diameter of 9 m (30 ft) [16] and a height of 121.3 m (398 ft). [17] The rocket has been designed with the goal of being fully reusable to reduce launch costs; [18] it consists of the Super Heavy booster and the Starship upper stage [19] which are powered by Raptor and Raptor Vacuum engines.
SpaceX's Starship rocket achieved a world first on Sunday during its fifth test flight, showing for the first time that Elon Musk's launch system may really have what it takes to revolutionize ...
The launch of SpaceX's SN8 Starship prototype. SpaceX conducted eleven flight tests of prototype rockets for the Starship development program from 2019 to 2021. These tests only included prototypes of the ship, or upper stage, rather than the full two-stage Starship launch vehicle.