SpaceX Starship Fifth Flight Test Recap & Looking Ahead to The Sixth Flight

SpaceX Starship Fifth Flight Test Recap & Looking Ahead to The Sixth Flight

Starship’s fifth flight test on October 13, 2024, was a "seminal moment in iterating towards a fully and rapidly reusable launch system. The sixth flight test of Starship is targeted to launch as early as Monday, November 18."

For 6th Flight Test updates and the upcoming webcast, visit:

http://spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-6

"Starship executed another successful hot-staging separation, igniting its six Raptor engines and completing ascent into outer space. It coasted along its planned trajectory to the other side of the planet before executing a controlled reentry, passing through the phases of peak heating and maximum aerodynamic pressure, before executing a flip, landing burn, and splashdown at its target area in the Indian Ocean. The flight test concluded at splashdown 1 hour, 5 minutes and 40 seconds after launch."

"The entire SpaceX team should take pride in the engineering feat they just accomplished. The world witnessed what the future will look like when Starship starts carrying crew and cargo to destinations on Earth, the Moon, Mars and beyond."

Review the mission summary here:

https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-5

"Starship is essential to both SpaceX’s plans to deploy its next-generation Starship system as well as for NASA, which will use a lunar lander version of Starship for landing astronauts on the Moon during the Artemis III mission through the Human Landing System (HLS) program."

Key Starship Parameters:

Height: 121m/397ft

Diameter: 9m/29.5ft

Payload to LEO: 100 – 150t (fully reusable)

Download the Free Starship User Guide (PDF):

https://www.spacex.com/media/starship_users_guide_v1.pdf

Video Credit: Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX)
Duration: 3 minutes, 28 seconds
Capture Date: Oct. 13, 2024
Release Date: Nov. 6, 2024

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