Partial Failure
Integrated Flight Test 2
Test Flight
SpaceX(SpX)CommercialStarshipN/A
Suborbit
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).
Saturday, November 18, 2023 at 1:02 PM
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Status Details
Failure 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.
Mission details
The SpaceX Starship is a fully reusable super heavy-lift launch vehicle under development by SpaceX since 2012, as a self-funded private spaceflight project. The second stage of the Starship — is designed as a long-duration cargo and passenger-carrying spacecraft. It is expected to be initially used without any booster stage at all, as part of an extensive development program to prove out launch-and-landing and iterate on a variety of design details, particularly with respect to the vehicle's atmospheric reentry.
Mar 1, 2019 — ongoing
SpX Mission
#299
Pad Launch
#2
Location Launch
#11
Launch Window
NET
Nov 18, 2023, 1:02 PM
Precision
Second
Schedule Changes
1 update
Social Flight Log
- Feb 27, 2024, 2:01 AM
Updated failure reason.
Source - Nov 19, 2023, 3:17 AM
Added launch time to the seconds.
Source - Nov 18, 2023, 2:20 PM
Starship successfully performed stage separation, while the Booster and Ship were lost after separation and seconds before shutdown respectively.
Source - Nov 18, 2023, 1:03 PM
Liftoff
Source - Nov 18, 2023, 1:02 PM
Countdown has resumed
Source - Nov 18, 2023, 1:00 PM
Holding at T-40 seconds
Source - Nov 18, 2023, 7:01 AM
Livestream has started
Source - Nov 16, 2023, 7:49 PM
launch delayed to saturday to replace a grid fin actuator.
Source - Nov 15, 2023, 9:47 PM
SpaceX has received the FAA license to launch Starship on its second test flight. Setting GO for the attempt on November 17 between 13:00 and 15:00 UTC (7-9am local).
Source - Nov 14, 2023, 2:56 AM
Refined launch window.
Source - Nov 11, 2023, 2:05 AM
NET November 17, pending final regulatory approval.
Source - Nov 9, 2023, 12:18 AM
Refined daily launch window.
Source - Nov 8, 2023, 10:08 PM
NET November 15 per marine navigation warnings.
Source - Nov 7, 2023, 4:34 AM
NET November 13 per marine navigation warnings.
Source - Nov 3, 2023, 8:02 PM
SpaceX is targeting NET Mid-November for the second flight of Starship. This is subject to regulatory approval, which is currently pending.
Source - Nov 1, 2023, 10:54 AM
Targeting November 2023, pending regulatory approval.
Source - Sep 18, 2023, 2:54 PM
Moving to NET October awaiting regulatory paperwork approval.
Source - May 27, 2023, 1:15 AM
IFT-2 is NET August according to a tweet from Elon. This is a highly tentative timeline, and delays are possible, and highly likely. Pad upgrades should be complete by the end of June, with vehicle testing starting soon after.
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SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
Starbase is an industrial complex for Starship rockets and the headquarters of the American aerospace manufacturer company SpaceX. Located near Brownsville, Texas, United States, it has been under construction since the late 2010s by SpaceX. Starbase is composed of a spaceport near the Gulf of Mexico, a production facility at the Boca Chica village, and a small structure test site along the Texas State Highway 4.
Timezone
America/Chicago
Local Launch Time
Nov 18, 2023, 7:02 AM
Total Launches
21
Total Landings
13
Coordinates
25.9970, -97.1570
SpaceX
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.
Founded
2002
Administrator
CEO: Elon Musk
Total Launches
681
Successful
666
Failed
15
Pending
120
Consecutive Success
166