Author Topic: SpaceX Starship Integrated Flight Test 5 (Read 10013 times)

Elderberry · « **on:** June 06, 2024, 06:23:52 pm »

SpaceX Starship integrated flight test 5 (IFT-5) will be the fifth integrated flight test of a prototype Starship launch vehicle. The prototype vehicles planned to be flown are the Ship 30 upper-stage and Booster 12.

SpaceX is expecting to perform the flight test in late June. In April 2024, Musk stated that the flight may involve a catch of the Super Heavy booster with the tower, if B11's 'virtual tower' landing is successful during IFT-4. On June 6th, after IFT-4, he reiterated that.

Elderberry · « **Reply #1 on:** June 10, 2024, 08:38:15 pm »

Elon Musk Speaks: All Starship Tiles will be Replaced After Flight 4 Issues!

Jun 10, 2024 #SpaceX #Starship #starshipflight4explained

Elon revealed details about Starship Flight 4 outcome, Flight 5, and beyond during a gaming livestream in X.

Video Credit: Elon Musk

00:00 Starship Flight 4 Report, Fixes & Future Missions
13:23 Raptor Engine 3D Printing
15:34 First Starship Mars Mission & Colonization
22:35 Flight 5 Booster Catch Plans
24:05 Starship Space Telescope Project
25:36 Flight 5 Next Month
25:44 How Will Starships Overcome Fuel Boil-Off During Deep Space Mission?
26:26 Starship Launch From Florida Update
26:45 Starship Will Enable Faster Trips To Mars
27:06 How Stainless Steel Saved Starship?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLptBt7byZg

Elderberry · « **Reply #2 on:** June 11, 2024, 12:03:13 pm »

Teslaconomics
@Teslaconomics

Starship 5 will be launching in ~1 month & the booster will be caught w/ mechazilla arms (instead of splashing down to the ocean). This will extremely difficult to execute, but if there’s one team to do it, it’s SpaceX.

https://x.com/Teslaconomics/status/1800524818049314827

Elderberry · « **Reply #3 on:** June 15, 2024, 02:17:23 pm »

RGV Aerial Photography
@RGVaerialphotos
Ship 30 has been mostly surrounded by scaffolding, to allow workers access to replace its heat shield with an additional ablative layer and stronger heat shield tiles on top of that.

Starbase flyover analysis happening now on Starbase Weekly! https://youtube.com/watch?v=oCg4HJ

https://x.com/RGVaerialphotos/status/1802034586219626983

bigheadfred · « **Reply #4 on:** June 15, 2024, 02:29:50 pm »

I am really looking forward to this next flight. If they can do what they have planned it will be epic!

Elderberry · « **Reply #5 on:** July 05, 2024, 12:54:23 pm »

Starship Flight 5 on Track as SpaceX Just Fixed Critical Issues & Tested Them! Tower 2 Stacking SOON

Scientia Plus Jul 4, 2024

SpaceX gears up for Starship Flight-5 with major upgrades to the launch mount and crucial booster-12 static fire tests. 🚀 Tower 2 stacking, a new flame trench, and repairs to the launch tower are underway. Meanwhile, Starship-31 successfully completed cryogenic testing after resolving previous anomalies.

Join us as we dive into Space Pioneer's Tianlong-3 rocket anomaly during a static fire test and its implications for their September launch. Discover how the test pad failure and unintended liftoff led to a catastrophic crash. Plus, get the scoop on NASA awarding SpaceX an $843 million contract to develop the U.S. Deorbit Vehicle for the ISS’s safe reentry in 2030. Don’t miss these pivotal updates in aerospace!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dafTHqo9ZSc

Elderberry · « **Reply #6 on:** July 28, 2024, 07:11:37 pm »

Ellie in Space 🚀💫
@esherifftv
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Breaking: Elon Musk predicts 50% chance of catching booster on Flight 5.
Roughly 60% chance of ship’s heat shield surviving reentry
IFT5 NET late Aug/early Sept

https://twitter.com/esherifftv/status/1817639082786521200

Elderberry · « **Reply #7 on:** August 03, 2024, 08:37:31 pm »

Elon Musk
@elonmusk
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Raptor 3, SN1

Elon Musk
@elonmusk
The amount of work required to simplify the Raptor engine, internalize secondary flow paths and add regenerative cooling for exposed components was staggering.

As a result Raptor 3 doesn’t require any heat shield, eliminating heat shield mass & complexity, as well as the fire suppression system.

It is also lighter, has more thrust and has higher efficiency than Raptor 2.

Truly, a work of art.

Riyan Mendonsa
@RiyanMendonsa
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This is cool!
The progression is crazy!

Smokin Joe · « **Reply #8 on:** August 03, 2024, 09:11:11 pm »

That's neat. I like that the object of refinement is simplicity.

Elderberry · « **Reply #9 on:** September 04, 2024, 04:45:31 pm »

SpaceX Is Insane! - Starship Flight 5 Test Campaign! They're Ready For The Catch!

What about it!?

SpaceX is ready to launch Flight 5, but are they ready to land? Ship 31’s heat shield is almost complete, but it's not supposed to be. SpaceX loses a Falcon 9 booster! What does this mean for future flights? And Rocket Lab releases stunning new footage of its state-of-the-art rocket Factory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrI1Xt4gNs0

Elderberry · « **Reply #10 on:** September 10, 2024, 05:35:51 pm »

Elon Musk
@elonmusk
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We will never get humanity to Mars if this continues

Peter Hague
@peterrhague
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SpaceX can't fly Starship until November at least.

This is nuts. How are 60 month delays to satisfy these requirements even remotely justifiable?

Elderberry · « **Reply #11 on:** September 13, 2024, 01:13:36 pm »

Ep399[Supporter] Musk Drops Massive Mars Update! Will SpaceX Defeat Bureaucrazy To Reach It?

What about it!?

Starship Flight 5 massively delayed by the FAA? SpaceX’s Villain arc? Starship fails a crucial test? Can they try again? Science fiction rocket factory about to come online? Elon reveals how and when we will colonize Mars! Polaris Dawn Finally launches and sets the first record!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjq0HZVNJQQ

Elderberry · « **Reply #12 on:** September 16, 2024, 07:31:11 pm »

SpaceX Call FAA "Unreasonable" As Starship Gets TWO MONTH Delay Because of Fish, & Polaris Returns!

Matt Lowne 9/16/2024

SpaceX continue pressing ahead with Starship and complete the Polaris Dawn mission, a crewed flight carrying four civilian passengers for 5 days, which conducted the first commercial spacewalk, and flew humans higher in Earth’s orbit than anyone since Apollo! The FAA was admonished during a recent hearing for impeding spaceflight innovation with excessive red tape, and SpaceX themselves issued a statement that Starship is being delayed for unreasonable reasons; this all happening while China made big strides towards the development of its ZhuQue 3, after successfully vertically landing a test vehicle. Blue Origin is drawing closer to the maiden flight of New Glenn, where they will attempt the first ever landing for a previously unflown rocket!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac9y4eukq7k

Elderberry · « **Reply #13 on:** October 02, 2024, 09:24:52 pm »

Adrian Beil
@BCCarCounters
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We asked the @FAANews about today´s published NOTMARs for Starship Flight 5.

The FAA confirmed that the statement from September 11, still stands, and Starship Flight 5 is not expected before late November.

@NASASpaceflight

Elderberry · « **Reply #14 on:** October 08, 2024, 11:28:49 am »

SpaceX Breaks Silence On Starship Flight 5 – Sunday Launch & Catch Abort In-Play

WCCFTECH by Ramish Zafar Oct 8, 2024

SpaceX has picked up the pace with its Starship Flight 5 preparations in Texas, as after tank tests yesterday, the firm confirmed on social media that Starship Flight 5 could take place as soon as Monday. The announcement was the first for Starship after SpaceX's previous post confirmed that the launch could be delayed until November because of regulatory approvals.

SpaceX's objectives for Flight 5 shared before today's announcement had included a tower catch for the Super Heavy booster as part of the firm's bid to build the world's first super heavy lift reusable rocket system.

SpaceX Ready To Fly Starship On Sunday Pending Regulatory Approval

SpaceX's post from yesterday night followed a day of Starship full stack testing at the pad. Right now, the upper stage Starship is stacked on the Super Heavy booster, and yesterday, SpaceX filled the booster's tanks with propellant to verify its systems. These tests typically increase in frequency before a launch, indicating that Starship's approval was moving faster than anticipated on the regulatory front.

SpaceX's earlier posts for Starship shared that regulatory approvals for the booster's tower catch and a new splashdown location for the interstage ring were the primary reasons behind the delay. The latest information confirms that a tower catch is still on the cards, indicating that the issues stemming from the sonic boom that had raised regulatory concerns might have been resolved.

However, just because SpaceX plans to catch the Super Heavy booster with the launch tower doesn't mean that a catch is guaranteed to occur. The firm outlined that it accepts "no compromises when it comes to ensuring the safety of the public and our team," which has led it to only attempt a catch "if conditions are right."

More: https://wccftech.com/spacex-breaks-silence-on-starship-flight-5-sunday-launch-catch-abort-in-play/

Elderberry · « **Reply #15 on:** October 11, 2024, 08:25:49 pm »

Elon Musk
@elonmusk
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Looks like Starship might fly on Sunday!

This the largest & most powerful flying object ever made at more than double the thrust of the Saturn V Moon rocket.

We will try to catch it upon return to launch site using the Mechazilla arms like giant chopsticks (like Karate Kid)!

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1844840205486043138

Elderberry · « **Reply #16 on:** October 12, 2024, 02:15:51 pm »

FAA approves SpaceX Starship 5 flight set for Sunday

Reuters by David Shepardson 10/12/2024

The Federal Aviation Administration approved a license on Saturday for the launch of SpaceX's Starship 5 set for Sunday after earlier saying it did not expect to make a decision until late November.

Reuters first reported this week the faster than expected timetable after the FAA in September had suggested a much longer review.

SpaceX is targeting Sunday for the launch and said a 30-minute launch window opens at 7:00 a.m. CT (1200 GMT)

The FAA said on Saturday SpaceX had "met all safety, environmental and other licensing requirements for the suborbital test flight" for the fifth test of the Starship and has also approved the Starship 6 mission profile.

More: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/federal-aviation-administration-approves-spacex-171426209.html

Elderberry · « **Reply #17 on:** October 13, 2024, 07:14:44 am »

Elon Musk: SpaceX Starship IFT-5 Flight Test! Starship Mechazilla Start!

A live webcast of the flight test will begin about 30 minutes before liftoff, which you can watch here. The launch window will open as early as 7:00 a.m. CT. As is the case with all developmental testing, the schedule is dynamic and likely to change.

Flight 4 was a tremendous success. A fully successful ascent was followed by the first ever booster soft-landing in the Gulf of Mexico and Starship making it through a brilliant reentry, before its own landing burn and splashdown in the Indian Ocean.

The fifth flight test of Starship will aim to take another step towards full and rapid reusability. The primary objectives will be attempting the first ever return to launch site and catch of the Super Heavy booster and another Starship reentry and landing burn, aiming for an on-target splashdown of Starship in the Indian Ocean.

Hr/Min/Sec Event
01:15:00 SpaceX Flight Director conducts poll and verifies GO for propellant load
00:49:50 Ship fuel (liquid methane) load underway
00:48:40 Ship LOX (liquid oxygen) load underway
00:40:40 Booster fuel load underway
00:34:03 Booster LOX load underway
00:19:40 Raptor begins engine chill on booster and ship
00:03:20 Ship propellant load complete
00:02:50 Booster propellant load complete
00:00:30 SpaceX flight director verifies GO for launch
00:00:10 Flame deflector activation
00:00:03 Raptor ignition sequence begins
00:00:00 Excitement guaranteed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slu4rTF-Bz0

Elderberry · « **Reply #18 on:** October 13, 2024, 07:18:49 am »

LIVE: SpaceX Starship Test Flight 5! SpaceX Goes For The Booster Catch!
What about it!?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfHL3B_NDFg

Elderberry · « **Reply #19 on:** October 13, 2024, 08:02:05 am »

SPACE.com
@SPACEdotcom

Watch live! SpaceX to launch Starship, attempt to catch booster

https://twitter.com/SPACEdotcom/status/1845432464329851228

Elderberry · « **Reply #20 on:** October 13, 2024, 08:24:09 am »

Possible hold due to "Range Violations"

Elderberry · « **Reply #21 on:** October 13, 2024, 08:26:36 am »

Launched!!!!

Elderberry · « **Reply #22 on:** October 13, 2024, 08:29:46 am »

Stage Separation

Elderberry · « **Reply #23 on:** October 13, 2024, 08:31:07 am »

Tower is Go for Catch!!!!

Elderberry · « **Reply #24 on:** October 13, 2024, 08:33:21 am »

Chopsticks Caught the Booster!!!!

Elderberry · « **Reply #25 on:** October 13, 2024, 08:36:12 am »

Nominal Orbital Insertion

Elderberry · « **Reply #26 on:** October 13, 2024, 09:23:30 am »

Thru peak heating of re-entry.

Elderberry · « **Reply #27 on:** October 13, 2024, 09:26:44 am »

Coming up on transonic in under 3 minutes. Now at maxQ.

Elderberry · « **Reply #28 on:** October 13, 2024, 09:29:10 am »

Now subsonic.

Elderberry · « **Reply #29 on:** October 13, 2024, 09:31:12 am »

landing burn startup

Elderberry · « **Reply #30 on:** October 13, 2024, 09:31:43 am »

splashdown

240B · « **Reply #31 on:** October 13, 2024, 09:33:36 am »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8UNydmlRg0

240B · « **Reply #32 on:** October 13, 2024, 09:39:02 am »

SpaceX rocket booster successfully lands in Texas after test launch

DAILYMAIL.COM
By Laura Parnaby
13 October 2024

SpaceX has successfully launched its enormous Starship rocket on Sunday on its boldest test flight yet, catching the returning booster back at the pad with mechanical arms.

Towering almost 400 feet (121 meters), the empty rocket blasted off at sunrise from the southern tip of Texas near the Mexican border.

It arced over the Gulf of Mexico like the four Starships before it that ended up being destroyed, either soon after liftoff or while ditching into the sea.

The last one in June was the most successful yet, completing its flight without exploding.

(more)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13954743/SpaceX-rocket-booster-lands-texas-test-launch-Musk.html

Elderberry · « **Reply #33 on:** October 13, 2024, 10:24:03 am »

Chris Bergin - NSF
@NASASpaceflight

Hopper is very proud.

IsailedawayfromFR · « **Reply #34 on:** October 14, 2024, 01:30:11 pm »

IMHO, this is the most outstanding video of any space-related technological achievement since I witnessed the men walking on the moon in 1969.

IsailedawayfromFR · « **Reply #35 on:** October 14, 2024, 04:26:06 pm »

Elon Musk, 13 years ago: A fully and rapidly reusable rocket is barely possible. SpaceX is going to try to do it. We could fail, but we're going to try to do it.

“The pivotal breakthrough that's necessary, that some company has to come up with to make life multiplanetary, is a fully and rapidly reusable orbit-class rocket.

This is a very difficult thing to do because we live on a planet where that is just barely possible. If gravity were a little lower, it would be easy. If it was a little higher, it would be impossible.

It's just a very tough engineering problem. I wasn't sure it could be solved for a while. But then, relatively recently, probably in the last twelve months or so, I've come to the conclusion that it can be solved.

And I think, SpaceX is going to try to do it. Now, we could fail. I'm not saying we're certain of success here, but we're going to try to do it. And we have a design that, on paper, doing the calculations, doing the simulations, it does work.

And now, we need to make sure that those simulations and reality agree, because generally when they don't, reality wins.”

https://twitter.com/elon_docs/status/1845770608560291917

Smokin Joe · « **Reply #36 on:** October 14, 2024, 04:56:56 pm »

Quote from: Elderberry on October 13, 2024, 07:14:44 am

Elon Musk: SpaceX Starship IFT-5 Flight Test! Starship Mechazilla Start!

A live webcast of the flight test will begin about 30 minutes before liftoff, which you can watch here. The launch window will open as early as 7:00 a.m. CT. As is the case with all developmental testing, the schedule is dynamic and likely to change.

Flight 4 was a tremendous success. A fully successful ascent was followed by the first ever booster soft-landing in the Gulf of Mexico and Starship making it through a brilliant reentry, before its own landing burn and splashdown in the Indian Ocean.

The fifth flight test of Starship will aim to take another step towards full and rapid reusability. The primary objectives will be attempting the first ever return to launch site and catch of the Super Heavy booster and another Starship reentry and landing burn, aiming for an on-target splashdown of Starship in the Indian Ocean.

Hr/Min/Sec Event
01:15:00 SpaceX Flight Director conducts poll and verifies GO for propellant load
00:49:50 Ship fuel (liquid methane) load underway
00:48:40 Ship LOX (liquid oxygen) load underway
00:40:40 Booster fuel load underway
00:34:03 Booster LOX load underway
00:19:40 Raptor begins engine chill on booster and ship
00:03:20 Ship propellant load complete
00:02:50 Booster propellant load complete
00:00:30 SpaceX flight director verifies GO for launch
00:00:10 Flame deflector activation
00:00:03 Raptor ignition sequence begins
00:00:00 Excitement guaranteed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slu4rTF-Bz0

Video no longer available because the Youtube account associated with the video has been terminated???
What's up with that?

Smokin Joe · « **Reply #37 on:** October 14, 2024, 05:03:04 pm »

Nothing will terrify the budding totalitarians among us like the thought that some might escape their penumbra, unreachable, uncontrollable, and competent.

It is enough that we are philosophically worlds apart, but to be physically so will evoke their most petulant tantrums ever.

Kamaji · « **Reply #38 on:** October 14, 2024, 06:59:45 pm »

Quote from: 240B on October 13, 2024, 09:33:36 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8UNydmlRg0

Geez louise! That makes Karate Kid's catching flies with chopsticks look easy by comparison.

Smokin Joe · « **Reply #39 on:** October 15, 2024, 03:09:48 am »

Quote from: Kamaji on October 14, 2024, 06:59:45 pm

Geez louise! That makes Karate Kid's catching flies with chopsticks look easy by comparison.

It is an awesome accomplishment. I'm just hoping some of the sci-fi we read as kids can come alive before we pass.
Elon's going to have to fight the globalists, though. They are already fighting him subtly, and will likely ramp it up.
They aren't going to like the idea of any escaping their grasp, especially not a planet or moon away (where attacks can be met by 'throwing rocks').

IsailedawayfromFR · « **Reply #40 on:** October 16, 2024, 05:29:05 pm »

Quote from: Smokin Joe on October 15, 2024, 03:09:48 am

It is an awesome accomplishment. I'm just hoping some of the sci-fi we read as kids can come alive before we pass.

Well, not all the sci-fi we read about, like Asimov's robots or HG Wells's War of the Worlds.

But I do know what you are thinking.

Timber Rattler · « **Reply #41 on:** October 19, 2024, 08:48:05 am »

This is just amazing!!!!

https://twitter.com/i/status/1846727351297888421

Elderberry · « **Reply #42 on:** October 19, 2024, 09:07:14 am »

Elon Musk
@elonmusk

Starship achieved a precise, soft landing in the ocean, paving the way for return to launch site and being caught by the tower arms, like the booster.

Full & rapid reusability improves the cost of access to orbit & beyond by >10,000%.

It is the fundamental technology breakthrough needed to make life multiplanetary and for us to become a true spacefaring civilization.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1847390573130367479

Elderberry · « **Reply #43 on:** October 19, 2024, 02:01:25 pm »

Andrew McCarthy
@AJamesMcCarthy
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I rented a $17k lens to photograph the recent starship launch in detail. When I aligned and stitched all the photos I took together, it made a unique video showing the entire event from launch to catch.

I hope to ride on Starship one day.

https://twitter.com/AJamesMcCarthy/status/1847655140322369810

Elderberry · « **Reply #44 on:** October 19, 2024, 02:50:34 pm »

ALEX
@ajtourville

AMAZING: @SpaceX generates the world's largest Mach diamond, courtesy of Starship Super Heavy 33 Raptor engines!

https://twitter.com/ajtourville/status/1847681217761857879

Elderberry · « **Reply #45 on:** October 22, 2024, 01:03:30 pm »

Chris Bergin - NSF
@NASASpaceflight
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HOS Ridgewind has recovered the Hot Staging Ring that was jettisoned during Flight 5.

http://nsf.live/starbase

https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1848769109145608291

Elderberry · « **Reply #46 on:** October 28, 2024, 07:44:26 pm »

SpaceX's Starship booster was '1 second away' from aborting epic launch-tower catch

Space.com by Mike Wall 10/28/2024

'We were one second away from that tripping and telling the rocket to abort and try to crash into the ground next to the tower.'

SpaceX's historic rocket catch earlier this month was even more dramatic than it looked.

That catch occurred on Oct. 13, during the fifth test flight of SpaceX's Starship megarocket. Starship's huge first-stage booster, known as Super Heavy, came back to Earth about seven minutes after liftoff, nestling next to its launch tower, which secured the rocket with its "chopstick" arms.

But that epic moment almost didn't happen: Super Heavy was just one second away from aborting the launch-tower landing and crashing into a patch of nearby ground, SpaceX engineers told company founder and CEO Elon Musk recently.

Musk revealed part of that conversation on X on Friday (Oct. 25), in a post that showed the billionaire's progress in the online game Diablo IV. That post depicted three minutes of Musk's Diablo IV gameplay, which occurred while he was talking to three unnamed SpaceX engineers about the Starship test flight.

"I wanted to be really up-front about scary sh*t that happened and what we're doing about it, because I think that's our focus on getting to Flight 6," one of those engineers tells Musk at the beginning of the posted conversation. That focus, the engineer adds, is "on booster risk reduction, rather than Ship envelope expansion." (Ship is the 165-foot-tall, or 50-meter, Starship upper stage.)

The engineer then goes into detail about the "scary sh*t."

"We had a misconfigured spin gas abort that didn't have quite the right ramp-up time for bringing up spin pressure," he explains. "And we were one second away from that tripping and telling the rocket to abort and try to crash into the ground next to the tower instead of [landing at] the tower — like, erroneously tell a healthy rocket to not try that catch."

"Wow," Musk says as he hears the news.

More: https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-super-heavy-chopsticks-catch-near-abort

Smokin Joe · « **Reply #47 on:** October 29, 2024, 03:27:02 am »

Wow. It's almost like turning your head as the bullet goes by...a miss is as good as a mile...well, almost.

Just another bug to iron out.