Launch Date: Late-May
Launch Window: TBD
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 mentioned
Orbit: LEO-ish
Yearly Launch Number: TBD
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.
Launch Window: TBD
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 mentioned
Orbit: LEO-ish
Yearly Launch Number: TBD
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.
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