Successful ascent, but the Ship lost attitude control after SECO due to a leak, making it unable to achieve its on-trajectory objectives.

Historical mission record
This page records Starship Flight 9 and its reported outcome: Launch Failure. The date above is a historical record.
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Status reported by the mission data provider.
Mission
9th test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle.
- Launch vehicle
- Starship V2
- Mission type
- Test Flight
- Destination orbit
- Suborbital
- Spacecraft
- Ship 35
- Destination
- Suborbital
- Launch pad
- Orbital Launch Pad 1
- Provider
- SpaceX
- Programs
- SpaceX Starship
- Recovery
- Ocean, Super Heavy Booster 14-2 did not made a planned splashdown near the launch site after disintegrating at landing burn start-up. +1
The vehicle
Published configuration and flight history.

Starship V2
Second development version of the Starship reusable two-stage super heavy-lift launch vehicle.
- Height
- 123.3 m
- Diameter
- 9 m
- Stages
- 2
- Recorded launches
- 5
- First flight
- 2025-01-16

Recorded timing
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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−00:51:37
Stage 2 LOX Load
- T−00:45:20
Stage 2 LNG Load
- T−00:41:37
Stage 1 LNG Load
- T−00:35:52
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+00:02:35
MECO
- T+00:02:37
Stage 2 Separation
- T+00:02:47
Booster Boostback Burn Startup
- T+00:03:27
Booster Boostback Burn Shutdown
- T+00:03:29
Booster Hot Stage Jettison
- T+00:06:19
Stage 1 Landing Burn
- T+00:06:40
Stage 1 Landing
- T+00:08:56
SECO-1
- T+00:18:26
Payload Separation
- T+00:37:49
SEB-2
- T+00:47:50
Atmospheric Entry
- T+01:03:11
Starship Transonic
- T+01:04:26
Starship Subsonic
- T+01:06:11
Landing Flip
- T+01:06:16
Starship Landing Burn
- T+01:06:38
Starship Landing
Launch site & orbit
SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
Launch site
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