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SpaceX launches giant Starship rocket into space on epic 3rd test flight (video)

March 14, 2024
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SpaceX launches giant Starship rocket into space on epic 3rd test flight (video)
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SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas — SpaceX’s Starship megarocket, the world’s largest and most powerful rocket, reached orbital speed for the first time Thursday in a historic third test flight from South Texas.

Hundreds of Spring Break spectators, rocket launch chasers and SpaceX fans gathered along the southern shores of South Padre Island and surrounding areas to witness the third test flight of the biggest rocket ever built. About 5 miles (8 kilometers) south of the crowds, SpaceX’s massive Starship vehicle lifted off this morning (March 14) at 9:25 a.m. EDT (1325 GMT) from the company’s manufacturing and test launch facilities near Boca Chica Beach.

“Starship reached orbital velocity,” SpaceX founder Elon Musk announced on X (formerly Twitter) after liftoff. “Congratulations SpaceX team!!” The launch occurred on the 22nd anniversary of SpaceX’s founding in 2002, the company said.

Neither the Starship vehicle nor its Super Heavy booster survived all the way through to their intended splashdown, but SpaceX officials said the test flight achieved several of its key goals during the flight. 

Starship launch March 14.

SpaceX’s Starship and Super Heavy rocket launches on its third test flight from Starbase near Boca Chica Beach in South Texas on March 14, 2024.(Image credit: Josh Dinner/Future)

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SpaceX’s Starship and Super Heavy rocket launches on its third test flight from Starbase near Boca Chica Beach in South Texas on March 14, 2024.(Image credit: Future/Josh Dinner)

SpaceX Starship Flight 3 launch on March 14, 2024

SpaceX’s Starship and Super Heavy rocket launches on its third test flight from Starbase near Boca Chica Beach in South Texas on March 14, 2024.(Image credit: SpaceX)

SpaceX Starship Flight 3 launch on March 14, 2024

SpaceX’s Starship and Super Heavy rocket launches on its third test flight from Starbase near Boca Chica Beach in South Texas on March 14, 2024.(Image credit: SpaceX)

Cheers erupted from the South Padre crowd as the dim morning sky was illuminated by the ignition of Starship’s 33 first-stage Raptor engines, which quickly shrouded nearly the entire vehicle in a plume of dust and smoke. Seconds later, the 400-foot tall (122 meters) rocket rose from the plume, quickly increasing its climb skyward. 

“This flight pretty much just started, but we’re farther than we’ve ever been before,” SpaceX spokesperson Dan Huot said just after liftoff in a livestream. “We’ve got a starship, not just in space, but on its coast phase into space.”

Related: See stunning photos and video of Starship’s 2nd launch

Today’s launch, designated Integrated Flight Test-3 (IFT-3), was the third test mission for the fully stacked Starship. The first and second Starship launches both ended explosively last year, with the vehicles detonating before the completion of each flight’s mission objectives. However, data collected during those first flights helped SpaceX engineers get Starship ready for success down the road. 

Improvements made between IFT-1 and IFT-2 last year included the implementation of a “hot staging” technique, in which the upper stage engines begin firing before Starship’s first-stage booster, known as Super Heavy, fully separates. IFT-2’s hot staging maneuver was a success, as it was today as well.

High in the sky, Starship’s two stages separated about 2 minutes 45 seconds after liftoff, sending the 165-foot-tall (50 m) upper-stage spacecraft onward to space while Super Heavy began preparations for a boostback burn to redirect its trajectory. That post-staging burn reversed Super Heavy’s velocity, and was intended to be followed minutes later by a landing burn above the Gulf of Mexico. However, it appears the Super Heavy’s engines did not relight as planned, leading to the loss of the booster. 

“It didn’t light all the engines that we expected and we did lose the booster,” Huot said. “We’ll have to go through the data to figure out exactly what happened, obviously.”

Starship is designed to be fully reusable, and SpaceX plans to land and relaunch its Super Heavy boosters, as it does with its Falcon 9 rockets. In the future, two “chopstick” arms on Starship’s launch tower will catch the Super Heavy booster as it returns for landing, but IFT-3’s Super Heavy was always expected to splash down in the Gulf.

Related: Starship and Super Heavy: SpaceX’s deep-space transportation for the moon and Mars

SpaceX Starship Flight 3 launch on March 14, 2024

The last view from SpaceX’s Starship Flight 3 Super Heavy booster shows just one of its 33 main engines relit during a landing burn on March 14, 2024 over the Gulf of Mexico. (Image credit: SpaceX)

Starship’s upper stage continued flying after separation, but didn’t attempt to go into a full orbit. Instead, the spacecraft entered a suborbital coast phase as it soared above Earth, during which SpaceX hoped to demonstrate two of the spacecraft’s flight systems toward vehicle qualification — the reignition of Starship’s Raptor engines and the transfer of cryogenic fuel between tanks. Following these demonstrations, the spacecraft was expected to splash down in the Indian Ocean about 65 minutes after launch, but SpaceX lost contact with the Ship during reentry.

“We are making the call now that we have lost Ship 28,” Huot said, referring to the Starship vehicle number, after an extended period without telemetry of contact with the vehicle. “We haven’t heard from the ship up until this point and so the team has made the call that Ship has been lost. So, no splashdown today.”

Rapid progress is needed for Starship, which is on the critical path for NASA’s Artemis 3 mission. Artemis 3 aims to land the first humans on the moon since the end of the Apollo era in the early 1970s. Artemis 3 is currently scheduled for 2026, giving Starship less than two years to meet NASA vehicle qualifications for landing astronauts on the lunar surface.

Related: Facts about NASA’s Artemis program

What does this mean for SpaceX?

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What does this mean for SpaceX?

SpaceX has a lot riding on its Starship reusable launch system, chief of which is its role to land NASA Artemis 3 astronauts on the moon by 2026, which will require over a dozen Starship launches per lunar landing. The company has already  sold private trips around the moon on Starship and sees Starship and Super Heavy as the lynchpin of its Mars and deep-space exploration plan, as well as heavy-lift launch options for its Starlink megaconstellation and other payloads.

SpaceX's Flight 3 Starship rocket glows red as it heats up during reentry during a test flight on March 14, 2024.

SpaceX’s Flight 3 Starship rocket glows red as it heats up during reentry during a test flight on March 14, 2024.(Image credit: SpaceX)

SpaceX's Flight 3 Starship rocket glows red as it heats up during reentry during a test flight on March 14, 2024.

SpaceX’s Flight 3 Starship rocket glows red as it heats up during reentry during a test flight on March 14, 2024.(Image credit: SpaceX)

SpaceX's Flight 3 Starship rocket glows red as it heats up during reentry during a test flight on March 14, 2024.

SpaceX’s Flight 3 Starship rocket glows red as it heats up during reentry during a test flight on March 14, 2024.(Image credit: SpaceX)

SpaceX's Flight 3 Starship rocket glows red as it heats up during reentry during a test flight on March 14, 2024.

SpaceX’s Flight 3 Starship rocket glows red as it heats up during reentry during a test flight on March 14, 2024.(Image credit: SpaceX)

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SpaceX Starship Test Flight 3 TimelineTIME (Hr:Min:Sec)FLIGHT EVENTHeader Cell – Column 2 T+00:02Liftoff Row 0 – Cell 2 T+00:52Starship/Super Heavy reach Max QRow 1 – Cell 2 T+2:42Super Heavy main engine cutoffRow 2 – Cell 2 T+2:44Hot-staging separation/Starship Raptor engine ignitionRow 3 – Cell 2 T+2:55Super Heavy boostback burn startupRow 4 – Cell 2 T+3:50Super Heavy boostback burn engine shutdownRow 5 – Cell 2 T+6:36Super Heavy is transonicRow 6 – Cell 2 T+6:46Super Heavy landing burnRow 7 – Cell 2 T+7:04Super Heavy landing burn shutdownRow 8 – Cell 2 T+8:35Starship engine cutoffRow 9 – Cell 2

SpaceX has other plans hinging on Starship as well. The company is relying on Starship’s unmatched payload capacity to launch the next generation of its Starlink internet satellites. Other Starship flights have been purchased by private entities, including Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa’s Dear Moon mission to fly himself and eight others around our nearest celestial neighbor.

Starship’s success today likely signals an uptick of launches from SpaceX’s Boca Chica facility. Equipment needed to build a second launch tower at the site have begun arriving for assembly, and infrastructure supporting Starship launches from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida are also well underway. 

A faster launch cadence would expedite Starship’s qualification by NASA to carry astronauts, but reaching NASA’s ambitious Artemis 3 timeline may still be a stretch. SpaceX is no stranger to fast launch cadences, though. In regular operation now for over a decade, the company’s Falcon 9 rocket has broken its own annual launch record for year after year, and is set to do so again in 2024.

Starship is designed with even more rapid reusability in mind. SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk has said the company eventually aims to launch, land and relaunch multiple Starship vehicles daily. 

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Josh Dinner is Space.com’s Content Manager. He is a writer and photographer with a passion for science and space exploration, and has been working the space beat since 2016. Josh has covered the evolution of NASA’s commercial spaceflight partnerships, from early Dragon and Cygnus cargo missions to the ongoing development and launches of crewed missions from the Space Coast, as well as NASA science missions and more. He also enjoys building 1:144 scale models of rockets and human-flown spacecraft. Find some of Josh’s launch photography on Instagram and his website, and follow him on Twitter, where he mostly posts in haiku.

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