Starship | Integrated Flight Test 2
Częściowe niepowodzenie
18 listopada 2023, 14:02 UTC
Przyczyna niepowodzenia
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.
Pojazd
Orbita
Lot suborbitalny
Typ misji
Lot testowy
Program
SpaceX Starship
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.
Lądowanie
Ocean - Gulf of Mexico (Nie)
Booster 9 was expected to splash down in the Gulf of Mexico following the second integrated test flight of Starship, but was lost after stage separation.
32 km downrange
Opis misji
Drugi lot testowy dwustopniowego pojazdu kosmicznego Starship. Booster miał się oddzielić 170 sekund po starcie, a statek Starship miał kontynuować lot do prawie orbitalnej trajektorii.