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Starship V1 · Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Starship Flight 6
Booster catch waved off to a soft splashdown; Starship performed the first in-space Raptor relight and carried its first payload.
- Result
- Success
- Super Heavy
- Splashdown
- Starship
- Splashdown
- Duration
- ~1 hr 5 min
Photo: SpaceX
Flight replay
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The flight
What Happened
The booster catch was waved off when commit criteria were not met, and the Super Heavy performed a soft splashdown in the Gulf instead. Starship demonstrated the first in-space relight of a Raptor engine, carried the flight's first payload (a mass-simulator banana), and completed a daylight splashdown.
Firsts
- First in-space relight of a Raptor engine
- First payload flown (a mass-simulator banana)
Flight path
Two stages
Booster and Ship
- Super Heavy boosterSplashdown
- Catch waved off, soft splashdown in the Gulf
- Starship upper stageSplashdown
- In-space Raptor relight; daylight splashdown
Objectives
- Second tower-catch attempt
- First in-space Raptor relight
- Daylight Starship splashdown
Anomalies
- Booster catch waved off (commit criteria not met)