SpaceX has just confirmed that they’re attempting today’s eleventh Starship launch and landing test. You can check out the trajectory details and the infographic in our previous post.
The official live-stream webcast is about to begin that you can watch below (via X). Unofficial live-stream by NasaSpaceFlight.com and Everyday Astronaut (YouTube versions) are attached below as well.
You can also find live text updates that I am going to post constantly as minor and major events happen during today’s Starship flight test (IFT-11).
Flight 11 Official Live Webcast
Starship Flight 11 Live Streams
NasaSpaceFlight Live-Stream
Everyday Astronaut Live-Stream
Live Updates (text archive)
- Propellant load of the Super Heavy booster is underway. Official live coverage by SpaceX starts in ~10 minutes.
- Super-cold propellant is getting loaded onto Flight 11 Starship; engine chill lines are showing.
- SpaceX is using 24 flight-proven Raptor 2 engines on Flight 11.
- SpaceX takes around 20 minutes to load propellant on the Starship Super Heavy (lower stage) and upper stage Starship spacecraft. With ~11 million pounds of Methane+Liquid Oxygen (MethaLOX), it’s more than 10 times the amount of propellant loaded onto a Falcon 9 rocket (500 tons loaded in ~35 minutes) but takes less time to load it into a fully integrated Starship.
- The ultra-cold temperatures of propellant might shrink Starship (made of stainless steel), but there’s no official figure for how much it shrinks due to a full prop load.
- T-minus 15 minutes remaining to launch.
- This is the last V2/Block 2 Starship that’s going to be launched from Starbase, Texas.
- SpaceX is already building multiple V3/Block 3 Starships at the StarFactory, Starbase, TX.
- The latest generation of the heat-shield tiles enables Starship’s rapid reusability in the future.
- The 33-engine static fire test of Flight 11 Starship Booster 15-2 exerted a thrust of 13,400 tons, which is equal to the thrust of three and a half Saturn V rockets.
- SpaceX is looking for civil, structural, and propulsion engineers to work at Starbase, Texas.
- Apparently, no issues in today’s flight (T-minus 2 minutes).
- T-minus 40-second mark crossed.
- Liftoff confirmed.
- Booser Raptor chamber pressure nominal.
- Booster and Ship trajectory nominal.
- Flight 11 Starship is now at MaxQ (maximum aerodynamic pressure) at around T-plus 1 minutes 40 seconds.
- Stage separation confirmed.
- Hot-staging ring separated at around T-plus 5 minutes.
- Booser 15-2 is on its way back to make a soft splashdown landing in the Gulf of America.
- Starship upper stage (Ship 38) is on a normal trajectory.
- To slow down the booster on landing, SpaceX is going to use 13 Raptor engines.
- 13-engine landing burn on the booster started (13 to 5 to 3 engines then landing).
- Booster 15-2 makes a successful splashdown landing.
- Next stage: SECO (second engine cutoff).
- At around 9 minutes 15 seconds into the flight, all Starship engines have cutoff (altitude: 150 km).
- All objectives on the booster are met for today’s flight.
- Next major objective is opening the payload door in space and deploying the V3 Starlink satellite simulators (it worked on Flight 10).
- SpaceX is once again going to confirm an in-space engine relight on Flight 11 Starship 38 to prove the ship can handle orbital missions and serve the company’s customers in delivering payloads in space.
- Starlink payload bay open.
- SpaceX starts the deployment of Starlink satellites in space.
- One of the satellite simulator had a little trouble getting out of the payload bay.
- SpaceX is using Starlink satellite broadband internet for the live-stream and amazing live views of the Starship in space.
- Dummy satellites are going to follow the same trajectory as Starship and will burn on reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere.
- Payload deployment of dummy Starlink V3 satellites is complete and the payload door is closed.
- Next major events: Starship’s atmospheric reentry and landing burn before splashdown in the Indian Ocean (near Australia).
- In the coming days, SpaceX is going to disassemble the existing OLM Pad 1 at Starbase because it’s not going to be useful anymore for V3 Starships.
- Flight 10 Starship turned orange on reentry, although some stainless steel parts melted during the descent, SpaceX successfully landed it back.
- Flight 11 Starship is currently coasting in space (T-plus 36 minutes).
- SpaceX successfully re-ignites sea-level engines in space.
- Starship is approaching the reentry phase (T-plus 42 minutes 50 seconds).
- Flight 11 Starship upper stage (Ship 38) is entering Earth’s atmosphere at around 5 miles per second. The plasma disconnects most of the communications with the spacecraft.
- Starship is transsonic (around Mach 0.8 to 1.2 M).
- SpaceX has intentionally removed some heat-shield tiles to test the limits of the Starship enduring super-high temperatures at reentry.
- Almost 15 minutes left in splashdown (at T-plus 51 minutes right now).
- The aft flaps (skirts) are intact this time. They were damaged on Flight 10 Starship because of the plasma built-up (heat) and propellant leak.
- SpaceX is targeting the exact same spot in the Indian Ocean where Flight 10 Starship landed the last time.
- External temperatures are coming down (T-plus 58 minutes 30 seconds).
- Vehicle is now at maximum dynamic pressure (MaxQ).
- SpaceX is going to attempt a catch of the upper stage Starship back to the launch site.
- SpaceX has installed cameras on buoys in the Indian Ocean to capture the Starship landing from an external view.
- Starship is transsonic; it’s going to perform the bellyflop maneuver next.
- Starship performs the landing burn successfully.
- 3 egnines > 2 engines > splashdown confirmed (not planning to recover the ship today).
- Flight 11 Starship launch and landing test has concluded successfully.
- Stay tuned for stunning landing views and videos as SpaceX shares them, we’re going to feature them for you. Until then, good evening from TeslaOracle.com.
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