Launch Date: June 5
Launch Window: 7am to 11am MDT (+1 hour EDT and -2 hrs PDT)
Launch site: LC-1 - Starbase, Boca Chica Beach, Texas
Core Booster Recovery: Expended in Gulf with a landing burn
Starship Recovery: A controlled reentry through the atmosphere to a terminal velocity splashdown in the Indian Ocean
Booster: Super Heavy Booster 11
Starship: Starship 29
Mass: No mass simulator
Orbit: LEO-ish
Yearly Launch Number: 60
A SpaceX Super Heavy and Starship launch vehicle will launch on its fourth "not quite" orbital integrated flight test designated IFT-4. The mission will attempt to place Starship into a nearly orbital trajectory that will attempt a controlled reentry through the atmosphere to a terminal velocity splashdown in the Indian Ocean . The Super Heavy booster will attempt a landing burn in the the Gulf of Mexico where it will likely be destroyed. This is a further test of Stage 0, the booster, full power ascent, Max-Q, stage separation using the new hot staging, a booster stage test of a hard turn and boostback, full burn boost of Starship to space and sub LEO, Starship will do one partial orbit, simulate a de-orbit burn, test tiles and heating from atmospheric reentry, until it has a splashdown in the Indian Ocean.
There will probably be a number of tests performed during the launch (similar to the last launch) that will be listed as the information on them happens.
SpaceX will jettison the hotfire ring on the booster somewhere in the reentry process.
Launch Window: 7am to 11am MDT (+1 hour EDT and -2 hrs PDT)
Launch site: LC-1 - Starbase, Boca Chica Beach, Texas
Core Booster Recovery: Expended in Gulf with a landing burn
Starship Recovery: A controlled reentry through the atmosphere to a terminal velocity splashdown in the Indian Ocean
Booster: Super Heavy Booster 11
Starship: Starship 29
Mass: No mass simulator
Orbit: LEO-ish
Yearly Launch Number: 60
A SpaceX Super Heavy and Starship launch vehicle will launch on its fourth "not quite" orbital integrated flight test designated IFT-4. The mission will attempt to place Starship into a nearly orbital trajectory that will attempt a controlled reentry through the atmosphere to a terminal velocity splashdown in the Indian Ocean . The Super Heavy booster will attempt a landing burn in the the Gulf of Mexico where it will likely be destroyed. This is a further test of Stage 0, the booster, full power ascent, Max-Q, stage separation using the new hot staging, a booster stage test of a hard turn and boostback, full burn boost of Starship to space and sub LEO, Starship will do one partial orbit, simulate a de-orbit burn, test tiles and heating from atmospheric reentry, until it has a splashdown in the Indian Ocean.
There will probably be a number of tests performed during the launch (similar to the last launch) that will be listed as the information on them happens.
SpaceX will jettison the hotfire ring on the booster somewhere in the reentry process.
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