r/SpaceX Integrated Flight Test Official Launch Discussion & Updates Thread!
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Welcome to the r/SpaceX Integrated Flight Test Official Launch Discussion & Updates Thread!
Welcome everyone to the 1st Full Stack Starship Launch thread!
How To Visit STARBASE // A Complete Guide To Seeing Starship
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| Scheduled for (UTC) | Apr 20 2023, 13:28 |
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| Scheduled for (local) | Apr 20 2023, 08:28 AM (CDT) |
| Weather Probability | Unknown |
| Launch site | OLM-A, Starbase, TX, USA. |
| Booster | Booster 7 |
| Ship | S24 |
| Booster landing | Booster 7 will splash down in the Gulf of Mexico following the maiden flight of Starship. |
| Ship landing | S24 will be performing an unpowered splashdown approximately 100 km off the northwest coast of Kauai (Hawaii) |
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Timeline
| Time | Update |
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| [](/# MC // row 1) T+4:02 | Fireball |
| [](/# MC // row 2) T+3:51 | No Stage Seperation |
| [](/# MC // row 3) T+2:43 | MECO (for sure?) |
| [](/# MC // row 4) T+1:29 | MaxQ |
| [](/# MC // row 5) T-0 | Liftoff |
| [](/# MC // row 6) T-40 | Hold |
| [](/# MC // row 7) T-40 | GO for launch |
| [](/# MC // row 8) T-32:25 | SpaceX Webcast live |
| [](/# MC // row 9) T-1h 15m | Ship loax load underway |
| [](/# MC // row 10) T-1h 21m | Ship fuel load has started |
| [](/# MC // row 11) T-1h 36m | Prop load on booster underway |
| [](/# MC // row 12) T-1h 37m | SpaceX is GO for launch |
| [](/# MC // row 13) T-0d 1h 40m | Thread last generated using the LL2 API |
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Watch the launch live
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Stats
☑️ 1st Starship Full Stack launch
☑️ 240th SpaceX launch all time
☑️ 27th SpaceX launch this year
☑️ 1st launch from OLM-A this year
Stats include F1, F9 , FH and Starship
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Resources
Mission Details 🚀
| Link | Source |
|---|---|
| SpaceX mission website | SpaceX |
Community content 🌐
| Link | Source |
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| Flight Club | u/TheVehicleDestroyer |
| Discord SpaceX lobby | u/SwGustav |
| SpaceX Now | u/bradleyjh |
| SpaceX Patch List |
While you're waiting for the launch, here are some videos you can watch:
Starship videos
| Video | Source | Publish Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species | SpaceX | 28-09-2016 | Elon Musk's historic talk in IAC 2016. The public reveal of Starship, known back then as the Interplanetary Transport System (ITS). For the brave of hearts, here is a link to the cursed Q&A that proceeded the talk, so bad SpaceX has deleted it from their official channel |
| SpaceX Interplanetary Transport System | SpaceX | 28-09-2016 | First SpaceX animation of the first human mission to mars onboard the Interplanetary Transport Systen |
| Making Life Multiplanetary | SpaceX | 27-09-2017 | Elon Musk's IAC 2017 Starship update. ITS was scraped and instead we got the Big |
| BFR Earth to Earth | SpaceX | 29-09-2017 | SpaceX animation of using Starship to take people from one side of the Earth to the other |
| First Private Passenger on Lunar Starship mission | SpaceX | 18-09-2018 | Elon Musk and Yusaku Maezawa's dearMoon project announcement |
| dearMoon announcement | SpaceX | 18-09-2018 | The trailer for the dearMoon project |
| 2019 Starship Update | SpaceX | 29-09-2019 | The first Starship update from Starbase |
| 2022 Starship Update | SpaceX | 11-02-2022 | The 2021 starship update |
| Starship to Mars | SpaceX | 11-04-2023 | The latest Starship animation from SpaceX |
Starship launch videos
• SN5 hop
• SN6 hop
• SN8 test flight full, SN8 flight recap
• SN10 test flight official, SN10 exploding
• SN15 successful test flight!
• SuperHeavy 31 engine static fire
Mission objective
Official SpaceX Mission Objective diagram
SpaceX intends to launch the full stack Booster 7/Starship 24 from Orbital Launch Mount A, igniting all 33 Raptor engines of the Super Heavy booster.
2 minutes and 53 seconds after launch the engines will shut down and Starship will separate from Superheavy.
Superheavy will perform a boostback burn and a landing burn to hopefully land softly on water in the gulf of Mexico. In this flight SpaceX aren't going to attempt to catch the booster using the Launch tower.
Starship will ignite its engine util it almost reaches orbit. After SECO it will coast and almost complete an orbit. Starship will reenter and perform a splashdown at terminal velocity in the pacific ocean.
Remember everyone, this is a test flight so even if some flight objectives won't be met, this would still be a success. Just launching would be an amazing feat, clearing the tower and not destroying Stage 0 is an important objective as well.
To steal a phrase from the FH's test flight thread...
Get Hype!
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Posted Apr 15, 2023, 12:02 PM UTC · edited