Starship Flight 6
Rocket: Starship
Vehicles:
S31 (Flight 1)
Landing: Splashdown
Launch Site: LP-1, Starbase, Texas
Payloads:
Satellite: Banana (for scale)
Destination: Transatmospheric
Customer: SpaceX
Details:
This launch was conducted later in the day allowing for daytime camera views in the ship splashdown location for the first time. The catch of B13 was aborted due to a groundside loss of communications with the tower despite everything initially polling GO for the catch. B13 performed a successful splashdown in the Gulf. S31 performed a successful splashdown in the Indian Ocean. This launch featured Starship's first ever payload - a plush banana (for scale). Final flight of Starship Block 1
Stats
Starship
6th Starship mission
4th success
4th consecutive success
B13
1st launch for B13
S31
1st launch for S31
LP-1
6th SpaceX launch from LP-1
Turnaround: 37.36 days
Mechazilla LP-1
2nd landing
1st landing partial failure
1st consecutive landing partial failure
Turnaround: 37.36 days
386th total landing attempt
1st total landing partial failure
2nd Starship landing attempt
1st Starship landing partial failure
2024
119th SpaceX mission of 2024
118th mission success of 2024
4th Starship mission of 2024
SpaceX
421st SpaceX mission
412th SpaceX success