flown missionPartial Failure
Starship | Integrated Flight Test 2
SpaceXOrbital Launch Pad 1 — SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
Either the launch vehicle reached orbit but did not deliver its payload in the targeted orbit, or an exceptional event made it impossible to consider the mission a success.
mission
- Name
- Integrated Flight Test 2
- Type
- Test Flight
- Target orbit
- Suborbital (Sub)
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).
schedule
- NET (no earlier than)
- Window opens
- Window closes
- Last updated
- Fail reason
- 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.
vehicle & provider
- Rocket
- Starship V1
- Family
- Starship
- Variant
- V1
- Provider
- SpaceX
- Type
- Commercial
- Country
- USA
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launch site
- Pad
- Orbital Launch Pad 1
- Location
- SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
- Country
- USA
- Timezone
- America/Chicago
- Coordinates
- 25.9962, -97.1544
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