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Starship Flight 9

Vehicles:

B14 (Flight 2)

Landing: Splashdown

S35 (Flight 1)

Landing: Splashdown

Payloads:

Satellite: Starlink V3 Mass Simulator

Quantity: 8

Destination: Transatmospheric

Customer: SpaceX

Mass: 16000 kg

Details:

B14 became the first Super Heavy booster to refly. SpaceX opted not to catch B14 a second time and instead chose to push the booster to its limits bringing it back through a much steeper angle of attack to aid design improvements in future booster. Upon the begining of the landing burn, one of the Raptor engines was seen to shut down prematurely followed shortly after by the explosion of the booster. Ship 35 completed its asscent burn - a first for a Block 2 ship. During the coast phase, the ship began to spin as a result of a fuel leak. This caused a planned Raptor relight test to be aborted. Furthermore, an attempt to open the ship's payload bay door was unsuccessful. Telemetry from the ship was lost at ~T+46:00

Stats

Starship

9th Starship mission

2nd partial failure

1st consecutive partial failure

B14

2nd launch for B14

Turnaround: 131.08 days

S35

1st launch for S35

LP-1

9th SpaceX launch from LP-1

Turnaround: 82.05 days

2025

66th SpaceX mission of 2025

1st mission partial failure of 2025

3rd Starship mission of 2025

SpaceX

506th SpaceX mission

3rd SpaceX partial failure