SpaceX Launches Third Starship Flight Test
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Published 2024-03-14
The mission will attempt a soft splashdown of Booster 10 in the Gulf of Mexico, and a splashdown of Ship 28 in the Indian Ocean.
Window Opens: March 14th at 7:00AM CDT (12:00 UTC)
Window Closes: March 14th at 9:00AM CDT (14:00 UTC)
Mission: Starship's third fully integrated test flight
Vehicles: Booster 10 and Ship 28
Booster Recovery: Booster will attempt a soft splashdown ~20km offshore simulating a landing back on the chopsticks.
Ship Recovery: Ship will not be recovered but will attempt a controlled reentry and splashdown in the Indian Ocean.
Stats:
· SpaceX's 26th launch of the year and the 7th launch of the month
· SpaceX's 3rd space launch from Starbase
Forum link: forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=60478.0
SpaceX's launch page: www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starshi…
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All Comments (21)
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One of the coolest launches ever! R.I.P. booster 10 and ship 28.
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Getting signal live from during the reentry was just amazing! Thank you NSF for all the hard work!
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Hats off to everyone at Spacex who worked so hard on this.
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9:14:29 "It's like, when will this thing fail?" Followed immediately by something structural failing on the cargo bay door.
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I have never, along with a ton of people NEVER seen that view of reentry. amazing. plus amazing progression in this test flight
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1:42 Stream Start (Live View and speech l) 7:10:49 1st Delay 7:43:32 2nd Delay 7:45:43 Tower Vent Start (and OLM vent) 7:53:42 Tower vent stop 8:01:14 Ship Prop. Loading 8:04:49 Booster Prop. Loading 8:40:11 Booster and Ship Prop load complete 8:43:42 FireX 8:43:50 T-10 Seconds 8:43:56 Deluge 8:43:58 Ignition and Liftoff! 8:45:06 MAX Q 8:45:52 On board views 8:46:50 Hot Staging 8:47:33 B10 Boostback view 8:47:56 Boostback shutdown 8:50:19 Grid Fin Action 8:51:08 B10 Failed Landing Burn (Not FTS hit ocean) 8:52:48 SECO, S28 in space 9:00:25 Payload Bay Door Open 9:14:30 Payload Bay Door closed (wobble) Fuel Transfer is done during sometime around here 9:30:19 Ship 28 Re Entry 9:33:54 Loss of Ship 28 (seen by data in bottom right) 9:36:28 Chopsticks start closing 9:50:17 Highway 4 Opens 9:58:10 Chopsticks lowering 10:18:03 Special Outro Congrats SpaceX
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I have been watching every livestream since SN4 exploded. And I can genuinely say that this is the coolest thing I have ever seen. Great job guys!!! And a big thanks to Mary as always. We are all tank watchers for life.
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Starship has gone further than ever before. What a day! On to the next pair! Such an incredible launch and the VIEWS! Can't wait for the next one. We have seen re-entry footage before but somehow this one from starship just felt and looked incredible, that plasma!!
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For any other rocket, this flight would have been a complete success. But of course SpaceX is trying to do a much harder thing. It will be very exciting to see what they will be able to accomplish in the next flights.
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WOW! That was so Incredible. It was insane seeing the footage of plasma forming on Ship 28 during re-entry. Can't wait to hear what SpaceX will learn from this flight test, and the changes that will be made for IFT-4
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My jaw was agape at the reentry. WOW!!
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A massive thank you to the entire NASASpaceflight team for all your hard work and dedication. This was truly a fantastic stream. Also want to thank all the very generous gifters for their super chats, memberships, tips. Amazing support.
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"Hard Splash Down" Love it. Hope we can see the 1000 plus KM 'splash down' footage soon.
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a ver great ending for a disappointing birthday for me, thank you nasaspaceflight for this very lovely cover
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Launch starts at 8:43:58 😉
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Everything that failed on IFT2 Worked on IFT3 ! That is 100% success!
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SpaceX mentioned on their stream that future engine upgrades will give the booster 3 times the thrust of the Saturn V, aka over 100 meganewtons of thrust
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I want one of those cameras! Pretty much indestructible it seems... Unreal sights, so impressive.
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guys, I respect lon, but can we please get a commentator who knows what they're talking about and is enthusiastic leading the most important stream of the year so far, please, for the sake of the community.