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Super Heavy booster used for the fifth Starship integrated flight test. First Super Heavy sucessfully caught.
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SpaceX • Starship V1 • Orbital Launch Pad 1 (TX)

SpaceX • Starship V1 • LP-1
Fifth test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle.

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Fifth test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle.
First development version of the Starship reusable two-stage super heavy-lift launch vehicle.
Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.
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ArticleAs a milestone for NASA’s Human Landing System program, SpaceX is working towards an on-orbit propellant transfer demonstration campaign, beginning in spring...
ArticleSpaceX almost ditched the catch of the Starship booster during the fifth integrated test flight (IFT-5) at the last second earlier this...
ArticleSpaceX’s Super Heavy booster came within a second of aborting a “catch” landing attempt on the latest Starship test flight, according to audio posted online,...
ArticleSpaceX completed a significant milestone in the Starship program with Flight 5 and is set to try to repeat it for Flight 6. Both vehicles are now Static-Fire...
ArticleFor many of the more than 11,000 participants at the International Astronautical Congress this year, the biggest news of the week-long conference was not any...
ArticleAt 7:25 AM CDT on October 13th, 2024, the fifth Integrated Flight Test (IFT-5) of SpaceX’s Starship-Super Heavy launch vehicle lifted itself from its Orbital...
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Super Heavy booster used for the fifth Starship integrated flight test. First Super Heavy sucessfully caught.
Ship 30 (S30) is the 2nd stage vehicle used for the fifth Starship integrated flight test. Lost to the ocean after a successful soft splashdown.
Starship Ship 30 has made an atmospheric re-entry and soft landing over the Indian Ocean.