Starship-Super Heavy Block 1 | Starship Flight 5

Status

Suborbital

Success

Starship Flight 5

Launch Time
Sun Oct 13, 2024 12:25 UTC

Super Heavy attempted its first-ever catch in the launch tower arms — and succeeded.

Fifth flight of Starship and Super Heavy.

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Rocket

Starship-Super Heavy Block 1

Image Credit: SpaceX

SpaceX

Status: Retired

Liftoff Thrust: 74,400 kN

Stages: 2

Strap-ons: 0

Rocket Height: 121.3 m

Fairing Diameter: 9.0 m

Details

Vehicles

Splashdown

Ship 30

Flight #1

7th recovery attempt

3rd successful recovery

3rd consecutive successful landing and recovery

Manifest

Orbital Launch Pad A Catch Tower

Booster 12

Flight #1

Manifest

Mission Details

Starship Flight 5

Starship conducted another flight test to demonstrate ship re-entry and booster tower catch capability.

Suborbital

Location

Orbital Launch Pad A, Starbase, Texas, USA

Wiki

Stats

SpaceX

400th mission

98th mission of 2024

391st successful mission

26th consecutive successful mission

Starship

5th mission

3rd mission of 2024

3rd successful mission

3rd consecutive successful mission