Starship Flight Test 5

Created exclusively for the MakerWorld Master Challenge: Space Exploration

Starship Flight Test 5 is the 5th flight of Starship. Launched on 13 October 2024, Ship 30 (S30) and Booster 12 (B12) have been used for this mission.

Starship 12/30 lifted off from launch pad one (OLIT-1) at SpaceX's Boca Chica Starbase launch site at 07:25 am CT. All 33 booster engines ignited. After hot staging, the ship continued towards space and the booster started its boost-back burn to get back to the launch site. SpaceX checked both the booster and the tower infrastructure and manually commanded Go for the catch attempt. The tower chopsticks successfully caught Booster 12 at 07:31, completing SpaceX's first main goal for this launch. At 07:48, the Ship engines were shut down and S30 entered a roughly 25 minutes coast phase. After reentry, Ship 30 landed precisely on target in the Indian Ocean, which was SpaceX's second main goal. S30 blew up after tipping over in the ocean. If it hadn't exploded, SpaceX would have planned to get some images from the heat shield tiles to assess their condition after reentry.

Accompanying the test, SpaceX released a small Starship Web game.

You can print only the image itself or use the attached thematic frame as well.

Created with the tool HueForge

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