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Integrated Flight Test 4
Starship V1
Historical mission record
This page records Starship | Integrated Flight Test 4 and its reported outcome: Launch Successful. The date above is a historical record.
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Mission
Fourth test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle.
- Launch vehicle
- Starship V1
- Mission type
- Test Flight
- Destination orbit
- Suborbital
- Spacecraft
- Ship 29
- Destination
- Indian Ocean
- Launch pad
- Orbital Launch Pad 1
- Provider
- SpaceX
- Programs
- SpaceX Starship
- Recovery
- Ocean, Booster 11 made a soft splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico. +1
The vehicle
Published configuration and flight history.

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

Booster 11
- Recovery
- Gulf of Mexico
- Landing method
- Ocean
Recorded timing
This is a mission record, not an upcoming calendar appointment.
Target ·
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Flight timeline
Planned sequence, not live telemetry. Times are relative to the launch target.
- T−01:15:00
GO for Prop Load
- T−00:49:00
Stage 2 LNG Load
- T−00:47:00
Stage 2 LOX Load
- T−00:40:00
Stage 1 LNG Load
- T−00:37:00
Stage 1 LOX Load
- T−00:19:40
Engine Chill
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- T−00:03:20
Stage 2 Propellant Load Complete
- T−00:02:50
Stage 1 Propellant Load Complete
- T−00:00:30
GO for Launch
- T−00:00:10
Flame Deflector Activation
- T−00:00:03
Ignition
- T+00:00:00
Excitement Guaranteed
- T+00:00:02
Liftoff
- T+00:01:02
Max-Q
- T+00:02:41
MECO
- T+00:02:45
Stage 2 Separation
- T+00:02:49
Booster Boostback Burn Startup
- T+00:03:52
Booster Boostback Burn Shutdown
- T+00:03:54
Booster Hot Stage Jettison
- T+00:06:39
Booster Transonic
- T+00:06:43
Stage 1 Landing Burn
- T+00:07:04
Stage 1 Landing
- T+00:08:23
SECO-1
- T+00:47:25
Atmospheric Entry
- T+01:03:11
Starship Transonic
- T+01:04:01
Starship Subsonic
- T+01:05:38
Landing Flip
- T+01:05:43
Starship Landing Burn
- T+01:05:48
Starship Landing
Launch site & orbit
SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
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