Integrated Flight Test
Starship V1. Orbital Launch Pad 1, SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA.
Launch Failure
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.
- Recovery
- Booster 7: Expended, not recovered
- S24: Expended, not recovered
2 Expended
- Your Time
- UTC
- At the Pad
Integrated Flight Test
SpaceX
Mission
Test Flight, Suborbital
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.
Change Log
Detected changes and source updates
Launch failure
Liftoff
Resuming countdown
Hold
Livestream has started
Confirmed next launch attempt on April 20.
Flight restriction for Wednesday has been cancelled, indicating a delay. Next possible window is Thursday, April 20th
Adjusting window based on FAA advisory. Awaiting confirmation from SpaceX, and window end time is uncertain
Next opportunity on April 19.
Scrub due to a first stage pressurization issue. Next opportunity 24 hours later.
Livestream has started
Updating T-0 to 13:20 UTC
1 hour slip in target T-0
Refined launch window.
Setting GO. SpaceX has received their FAA launch licence
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.
Setting window
Moving to NET mid third week of April and removed launch window pending confirmation from FAA advisory
SpaceX will conduct a Wet Dress Rehearsal next week, with a launch NET the following week (April 17), pending regulatory approval.
Moving back to NET April. A road closure filing for April 10-13 states non-flight activities on those days.
Tweak in potential launch window.
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.
NET April
March 11 launch date no longer certain.
NET March 11
NET March
NET late February
NET December 2022
Targeting November 2022 for first launch
Launch no earlier than October 2022 with Starship/Superheavy on-pad testing still yet to complete.
Moving to NET September, pending vehicle readiness and FAA launch licence
Pushing to NET August pending vehicle readiness.
Probably can be safely pushed back by a month pending Boca Chica launch pad EA approval.
NET May 2022
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.
NET March 2022
NET early 2022