Bloomberg Television8 min
SpaceX Starship Launches on Flight Test
Product Demonstration, Interview, Other
- The mission trajectory includes a return to Earth with a maximum dynamic pressure event anticipated within the next 90 seconds.
- Stage separation is scheduled for the two-minute-and-30-second mark, followed by a heavy landing burn starting approximately six minutes into the flight.
- The six Raptor engines on Starship are projected to operate for roughly four and a half minutes before shutdown.
- A catch attempt by the "chopsticks" is expected around six minutes and 30 seconds into the flight, with a splashdown planned as a contingency.
- The Super Heavy booster is expected to return to the launch site in approximately three minutes.
- The spacecraft is projected to orbit Earth for about 23 hours before returning to the launch pad for a potential catch roughly 22 hours from the broadcast time.
- Commercial ambitions for a space-based data center constellation depend on Starship achieving rapid and full reusability.
- Strategic objectives include using Starship to transport humans to Mars and fulfilling NASA obligations to return humans to the Moon.