Starship Flight 11
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Starship V2 · Monday, October 13, 2025

Starship Flight 11

The final Block 2 flight, a clean mission with controlled splashdowns of both the booster and the ship.

Result
Success
Super Heavy
Splashdown
Starship
Splashdown
Duration
~1 hr 6 min

Photo: SpaceX

Flight replay

Watch Starship Flight 11

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The flight

What Happened

The last flight of the Block 2 (V2) Starship before the program moved to the larger Block 3. Both stages flew a controlled profile: the Super Heavy booster made a controlled splashdown in the Gulf, and Starship completed its planned flight and a controlled splashdown in the Indian Ocean, closing out the Block 2 campaign on a clean note.

Firsts

  • Final flight of the Block 2 (V2) Starship

Flight path

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The numbers match The Flight Plan below. Not to scale.

Two stages

Booster and Ship

Super Heavy boosterSplashdown
Controlled splashdown in the Gulf
Starship upper stageSplashdown
Controlled reentry and splashdown in the Indian Ocean

Objectives

  • Final Block 2 test objectives
  • Controlled booster splashdown
  • Controlled Starship reentry and splashdown

Minute by minute

The Flight Plan

SpaceX's plan, published before launch. The real flight can differ: What Happened above says how.

  1. T+00:02

    Liftoff

    Full stack

  2. T+01:02

    Max Q (moment of peak aerodynamic stress on the rocket)

    Full stack

  3. T+02:39

    Hot-staging (Starship Raptor ignition and stage separation)

    Full stack

  4. T+02:49

    Super Heavy boostback burn start

    Super Heavy

  5. T+06:20

    Super Heavy landing burn start

    Super Heavy

  6. T+08:58

    Starship engine cutoff

    Starship

  7. T+18:28

    Payload deploy demo start

    Starship

  8. T+37:49

    Raptor in-space relight demo

    Starship

  9. T+47:43

    Starship entry

    Starship

  10. T+1:05:58

    Landing burn start

    Starship

  11. T+1:06:25

    An exciting landing!

    Starship

The full SpaceX timeline (32 steps)
  1. T−1:15:00SpaceX Flight Director conducts poll and verifies GO for propellant load
  2. T−53:00Ship fuel (liquid methane) load underway
  3. T−46:10Ship LOX (liquid oxygen) load underway
  4. T−41:15Booster fuel load underway
  5. T−35:52Booster LOX load underway
  6. T−19:40Raptor begins engine chill on booster and ship
  7. T−03:20Ship propellant load complete
  8. T−02:50Booster propellant load complete
  9. T−00:30SpaceX flight director verifies GO for launch
  10. T−00:10Flame deflector activation
  11. T−00:03Raptor ignition sequence begins
  12. T−00:00Excitement guaranteed
  13. T+00:02Liftoff
  14. T+01:02Max Q (moment of peak aerodynamic stress on the rocket)
  15. T+02:37Super Heavy MECO (most engines cut off)
  16. T+02:39Hot-staging (Starship Raptor ignition and stage separation)
  17. T+02:49Super Heavy boostback burn start
  18. T+03:38Super Heavy boostback burn shutdown
  19. T+03:40Hot-stage jettison
  20. T+06:20Super Heavy landing burn start
  21. T+06:36Super Heavy landing burn shutdown
  22. T+08:58Starship engine cutoff
  23. T+18:28Payload deploy demo start
  24. T+25:33Payload deploy demo complete
  25. T+37:49Raptor in-space relight demo
  26. T+47:43Starship entry
  27. T+1:03:30Starship is transonic
  28. T+1:03:52Starship is subsonic
  29. T+1:05:58Landing burn start
  30. T+1:06:00Landing flip
  31. T+1:06:09Landing burn 3 to 2 engines
  32. T+1:06:25An exciting landing!

Planned timeline · Source: SpaceX

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