Starship Flight Test 5
Starship flight test 5 was the fifth flight test of a SpaceX Starship launch vehicle. SpaceX performed the flight test on October 13, 2024. The test article (aerospace), prototype vehicles flown were the Starship Starship Ship 30, Ship 30 upper-stage and Super Heavy Super Heavy Booster 12, Booster 12. After launching and delivering the SpaceX Starship (spacecraft), Starship upper stage into a Sub-orbital spaceflight, suborbital trajectory heading toward a splashdown in the Indian Ocean, the SpaceX Super Heavy, Super Heavy booster turned around and fired its SpaceX Raptor, Raptor engines to Return to launch site, return to the launch site. As the booster approached the launch pad it slowed to a near Hover (behaviour), hover and did a horizontal slide maneuver to line itself up with two massive "chopstick" arms on the Service structure, launch tower, dubbed "Mechazilla." The arms then closed around the booster before the engines shut down. The rocket launched on the morning of 13 ...
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SpaceX Starship (spacecraft)
Starship is a spacecraft and Upper stage, second stage under development by American aerospace company SpaceX. Stacked atop its booster, SpaceX Super Heavy, Super Heavy, the pair compose SpaceX's Super heavy-lift launch vehicle, super heavy-lift space vehicle, also called SpaceX Starship, Starship. The spacecraft is designed to transport both crew and cargo to a variety of destinations, including Earth orbit, the Moon, and Mars. It is designed to be Reusable spacecraft, reusable and capable of Propulsive landing, landing propulsively by firing its engines to perform a controlled descent into the arms of a tower on Earth or with landing legs on other planetary bodies. It is intended to enable long-duration Interplanetary spaceflight, interplanetary flights with a crew of up to 100 people. It is also claimed by SpaceX to be capable of enabling travel to anywhere on Earth in under an hour. Furthermore, it has been proposed to be used to Orbital propellant depot, refuel other Starship ...
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