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Integrated Flight Test 2
Starship V1
Historical mission record
This page records Starship | Integrated Flight Test 2 and its reported outcome: Launch was a Partial Failure. The date above is a historical record.
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Mission status
Launch was a Partial Failure
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LAUNCH SITESpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
Mission
Second test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle. The booster is expected to separate 170 seconds into flight and return to land approximately 32 km off the shore in the Gulf of Mexico. The second stage will follow a suborbital trajectory and perform an unpowered splashdown approximately 100 km off the northwest coast of Kauai (Hawaii).
- Launch vehicle
- Starship V1
- Mission type
- Test Flight
- Destination orbit
- Suborbital
- Spacecraft
- Ship 25
- Destination
- Pacific Ocean
- Launch pad
- Orbital Launch Pad 1
- Provider
- SpaceX
- Programs
- SpaceX Starship
- Recovery
- Ocean, Booster 9 was expected to splash down in the Gulf of Mexico following the second integrated test flight of Starship, but was lost after stage separation. +1
The vehicle
Published configuration and flight history.
Launch vehicle
Starship V1
First development version of the Starship reusable two-stage super heavy-lift launch vehicle.
- Height
- 121.3 m
- Diameter
- 9 m
- Stages
- 2
- Recorded launches
- 6
- First flight
- 2023-04-20
Core
Booster 9
Flight 1NewLanding failed
- Recovery
- Gulf of Mexico
- Landing method
- Ocean
Recorded timing
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Mission update
Flight termination system activated on Starship after T+8 minutes, seconds before planned SECO, due to a leak of liquid oxygen causing a combustion event and fires which led to a loss of communication. Booster was destroyed during the boost-back burn. most likely due to a filter blockage on a liquid oxygen line supplying the engines. Most planned primary objectives achieved.
Launch site & orbit
SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
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Launch site
DestinationSuborbital
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