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Starship | Integrated Flight Test 2

November 18, 2023 at 1:00 PM

Mission

Integrated Flight Test 2

Type:

Test Flight

Orbit:

Suborbital

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).

Status

Launch was a Partial Failure

Either the launch vehicle reached orbit but did not deliver its payload in the targeted orbit, or an exceptional event made it impossible to consider the mission a success.