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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 .
Both Starship's first and second stages are planned to be reusable, and are planned to be caught by the tower arms used to assemble the rocket at the pad. [7] This capability was first demonstrated during Starship's fifth flight test, using a Block 1 booster. [8]
SpaceX on Sunday carried out its fifth flight test of Starship, a powerful rocket that Elon Musk hopes will one day take humans to Mars. The spacecraft launched shortly after 8 a.m. ET in Boca ...
Relive SpaceX Starship’s fifth test flight here as it happened. ... For the first time, this demonstration mission included an ambitious attempt to maneuver the 232-foot-tall (71-meter) rocket ...
Starship, first unveiled by Musk in 2017, has exploded several times in various stages of testing on past flights, but successfully completed a full flight in June for the first time.
Starship flight test 2 — Failure [c] Failure (ocean) Destroyed B10: Block 1: 1 March 14, 2024 Starship flight test 3 — Success Failure (ocean) Destroyed B11: Block 1: 1 June 6, 2024 Starship flight test 4 — Success Controlled (ocean) Expended B12: Block 1: 1 October 13, 2024 Starship flight test 5 — Success Success Retired B13
Mechazilla, a giant metal arm, successfully caught SpaceX's descending rocket booster during fifth test launch. SpaceX launches Starship the 5th time; successfully catches booster in huge mechanic arm
On 13 October, Starship flew its fifth orbital flight test during which, for the first time, the first stage booster was recovered. This makes Super Heavy the second ever orbital class rocket booster to be recovered by the use of retropropulsive landing (first being the Falcon 9 booster).