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During Starship flight test 7 on Thursday, January 16, 2025, initial data indicated that a fire broke out mid-flight, leading to the destruction of the vehicle. [13] SpaceX suspects the fire was caused by an issue with the propellant system, that has led to excess pressure in the cavity above the engine firewall.
The mission profile for the Starship Propellant Transfer Demo will begin with the first launch. This launch will deliver the upper stage into orbit around the earth, while the first stage returns to the launch site for a catch. The second launch will repeat this profile three to four weeks later, and dock with the first starship. [4]
Starship vehicles have been launched 7 times, resulting in 4 successes (57.14%), and 3 failures. Starship Block 1 was launched six times between April 2023 and November 2024, with the ship retired ahead of the seventh flight. [9] Block 1 boosters are expected to fly further into the future. [10]
Elon Musk tweets about free speech as public waits for news on Starship launch Thursday 16 November 2023 19:23 , Andrew Griffin As the world awaits for news out of SpaceX (see below), Elon Musk ...
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) [17] and a height of 121.3 m (398 ft). [6] 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.
Starship is the world's biggest rocket, measuring 30 feet wide and standing nearly 400 feet tall — or about 90 feet taller than the Statue of Liberty. It weighs more than 11 million pounds when ...
Starship Flight 7 lifted off from the company’s Starbase facility in Texas at 4.37pm local time (10.37pm GMT) on Thursday, with the first stage booster returning to the launch pad shortly after ...
Starship flight test 4 was the fourth flight test of the SpaceX Starship launch vehicle. SpaceX performed the flight test on June 6, 2024. The prototype vehicles flown were the Starship Ship 29 upper-stage and Super Heavy Booster 11 .