SpaceX Starship progress

SpaceX Starship progress

Starship completed

2018

  • 00-12-2018 Starhopper. First static fire: 03-04-2019. Maiden flight: 25-07-2019.
  • 00-12-2018 MK1.

2019

  • 00-05-2019 MK2.
  • 27-08-2019 Starhopper, 150 meter hop test.
            • 1 minute flight.
  • 00-09-2019 MK4.
  • 00-10-2019 MK3/SN1 (SN Serial Number).

2020

  • 00-03-2020 SN3.
  • 00-04-2020 SN4. First static fire: 05-05-2020. No maiden flight. 
  • 00-04-2020 SN5. First static fire: 27-07-2020. Maiden flight: 04-08-2020.
  • 00-05-2020 SN6. First static fire: 23-08-2020. Maiden flight: 03-09-2020.
  • 00-05-2020 SN7. Not seen.
  • 00-07-2020 SN8. First static fire: 20-10-2020. Maiden flight: 09-12-2020.
  • 04-08-2020 SN5, 150 meter hop test.
  • 00-08-2020 SN9. First static fire: 06-01-2021. Maiden flight: 02-02-2021.
  • 03-09-2020 SN6, 150 meter hop test.
  • 00-09-2020 SN10. First static fire: 23-02-2021. Maiden flight: 03-03-2021.
  • 00-09-2020 SN11. First static fire: 22-03-2021. Maiden flight: 30-03-2021.
  • 00-11-2020 SN15. First static fire: 26-04-2021. Maiden flight: 05-05-2021.
  • 09-12-2020 SN8, high-altitude flight test, landing attempt No. 1. 
            • 1 st engine cutoff.
            • 2nd engine cutoff.
            • Liqued oxygen release (dump).
            • 3rd engine cutoff.
            • Vehicle reorientation.
            • Flip maneuver.
            • Landing burn.
            • Landing failure No. 1.

2021

  • SN16/Starship.
  • 02-02-2021 SN9, high-altitude flight test, landing attempt No. 2.
            • Landing failure No. 2.
  • SN17.
  • SN18.
  • 03-03-2021 SN10, high-altitude flight test, landing attempt No. 3.
            • Exploded eight minutes later on the landing pad after touching down harder than expected.
            • Landing failure No. 3.
  • 30-03-2021 SN11, high-altitude flight test, landing attempt No. 4.
            • Rapid unscheduled disassembly occured after losing telemetry data with Starship.
            • Failure No. 4.
  • SN17.
  • SN19.
  • 05-05-2021 SN15, high-altitude flight test, landing attempt No. 5.
            • 6 minutes flight.
            • Soft landing achieved.
  • SN20/Starship. First static fire: 21-10-2021.
  • SN21.
  • SN22.
  • SN23.
  • 00-11-2021 SN24. First static fire: 09-08-2022. Maiden flight: Not yet.

2022

  • 00-03-2022 S25. First static fire: Not yet. Maiden flight: Not yet.
  • 00-05-2022 S26. First static fire: Not yet. Maiden flight: Not yet.
  • 00-06-2022 S27. First static fire: Not yet. Maiden flight: Not yet.
  • 00-07-2022 S28. First static fire: Not yet. Maiden flight: Not yet.
  • 11-07-2022 High-energy test event.
  • 00-10-2022 De-stacking.
  • 11-10-2022 First time full stack of
  • 13-10-2022 First full stack test. Poor results.
  • 16-10-2022 De-stacking.
  • 20-10-2022 Re-stacking.
  • 24-10-2022 Stacked vehicle: Conduct LOX and LCH4 single species prop system test.
  • 00-11-2022 B7: Complete 1-engine static fire test.
  • 00-11-2022 B7: Complete 3-engine static fire test.
  • 00-11-2022 B7: Complete 7-engine static fire test.
  • 28-11-2022 Fire suppression test.
  • 29-11-20222 B7: Complete 11-engine static fire test.
  • 00-12-2022 S24: Complete 2-engine static fire test.
  • 00-12-2022 S24: Complete 6-engine static fire test.
  • 00-12-2022 B7 and S24: Re-stacking.
  • 00-12-2022 Additional single-species prop system testing.
  • 00-12-2022 Additional de-stacked static fire tests.

2023

  • 09-01-2023 Stacking B7 and S24. Lift onto OLM.
  • 12-01-2023 Ground Support Equipment (GSE) Tank testing.
  • 13-01-2023 Propelland Load Test.
  • 18-01-2023 Propellant Load Test.
  • 20-01-2023 B8 and S22: Dismantled.
  • 20-01-2023 Hydraulic Pressure Unit (HPU) removed from B7. The battery still remains.
  • 20-01-2023 Orbital Launch Mount (OLM) platform lowered from under the full stack. 
  • 23-01-2023 First full-stack Wet Dress Rehearsal (WDR) B7 and S24.
      • Temporary Flight Restrictions (TFR) Brownsville (Boca Chica): 14,000 ft. 
      • Marine Safety Information Bulletin (MSIB).
      • S24:
            • 260 MT CH4
            • 1000 MT LOX
      • B7:
            • 800 MT CH4
            • 2800 MT LOX
  • 25-01-2023 Examination of the WDR results.
  • 29-01-2023 Status update
      • Starship:
            • S24 Preparing for OTF.
            • S25 Awaiting tests.
            • S26 Assembled, awaiting tests.
            • S27 Preparing for large assembly.
            • S28 – S31 Parts production.
      • Super Heavy (SH):
            • SH7 Preparing firing test with 33 engines.
            • SH9 Engine installation, awaiting tests.
            • SH10 Mass assembly.
            • SH11, SH12, SH13, SH14 Parts production.
  • 02-02-2023 De-stacking SH7 for static fire
  • 09-02-2023 Static fire B7. Target: All 33 Raptor engines of Booster 7 run simultaneously. Results: Team turned off one Raptor just before start and  one Raptor stopped itself, so 31 Raptor engines fired overall. Still enough engines to reach orbit.
            • Duration of this static fire test was seven seconds.
            • At 50% thrust (7.9 million lbf of thrust (3,600 metric tons).
            • Despite losing two Raptors, SpaceX still broke the all-time record for the number of rocket engines ignited simultaneously. That record was held by the Soviet N1 rocket, which launched four times with 30 NK-15 engines in the late 1960s and early 1970s. None of its test flights were successful, but N1 still set the record for the most thrust produced by a single rocket, generating up to 4500 tons (9.9M lbf) of thrust at liftoff.
            • Neither SpaceX nor CEO Elon Musk has confirmed it, reducing the odds that Super Heavy Booster 7 broke that historic thrust record. But it certainly could have. Each Raptor 2 engine can generate up to 230 tons (507,000 lbf) of thrust at sea level. Raptor is theoretically designed to throttle as low as 40%, or 92 tons (~200,000 lbf) of thrust. With 33 engines operating nominally at their minimum throttle setting, Super Heavy would have produced 3036 tons (~6.7M lbf) of thrust during today’s static fire – not a record.
  • 19-02-2023 Crew-6 Dragon arrives at LC-39A ahead of flight.
  • 20-02-2023 S26 on suborbital Pad A.

Starship in progress and upcoming

  • 20-03-2023 Work on isolating the Orbital Launch Mount (OLM) continues.
  • 00-00-2023 Another Static Fire B7 with more thrust (expected).
  • 00-00-2023 Examination of static fire results.
  • 00-00-2023 FAA License.
  • 00-00-2023 First orbital flight of Starship (expected).
  • 00-00-2023 Configuration:
            • Starship 24 (S24).
            • Super Heavy 7 (SH7).
  • 00-00-2023 Trajectory:
            • Launch: Starbase Boca Chica, TX.
            • Orbit: Earth (once).
            • Splashdown: Pacific Ocean near Hawaii.
SpaceX Starship 19-11-2022
SpaceX Starship 19-11-2022
SpaceX Starship 19-11-2022
SpaceX Starship 19-11-2022
Wet Dress Rehearsal (WDR) Starship 23-01-2023
Wet Dress Rehearsal (WDR) Starship 23-01-2023
33 Raptor engines
33 Raptor engines
Static fire 09-02-2023
Static fire 09-02-2023

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