SpaceX Starship integrated flight test 3

Starship integrated flight test 3
	Video of Starship in flight during IFT-3
Mission type	Flight test
Operator	SpaceX
Mission duration	49 minutes, 35 seconds (achieved); 1 hour, 4 minutes, 39 seconds (planned)
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft	Starship S28, Super Heavy B10
Start of mission
Launch date	March 14, 2024, 13:25:00 UTC
Rocket	Starship
Launch site	Starbase
Contractor	SpaceX
End of mission
Destroyed	March 14, 2024, 14:14:35 UTC
Orbital parameters
Regime	Suborbital (achieved); Transatmospheric Earth orbit (planned)
Periapsis altitude	−50 km (−31 mi) (achieved); 50 km (31 mi) (planned)
Apoapsis altitude	234 km (145 mi) (achieved); 235 km (146 mi) (planned)
Inclination	26.5°
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SpaceX Starship integrated flight test 3 (IFT-3) was the third integrated flight test of the SpaceX Starship launch vehicle. SpaceX performed the flight test on March 14, 2024.^[3]^[4]

Starship successfully completed a full-duration second stage burn, reaching the intended orbital velocity for the first time, but broke up during re-entry in the atmosphere.^[4]^[5]^[6]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h McDowell, Jonathan (March 14, 2024). "Jonathan's Space Report No. 831". Jonathan's Space Report. Archived from the original on March 29, 2019. Retrieved March 14, 2024.
^ "Narrative Description: STA Application No. 2224-EX-ST-2023". Federal Communications Commission. November 8, 2023. Retrieved March 14, 2024.
^ "Starship's Third Flight Test". SpaceX. Archived from the original on March 6, 2024. Retrieved March 14, 2024.
^ ^a ^b Chang, Kenneth (March 14, 2024). "SpaceX Blazes Forward With Latest Starship Launch". The New York Times. Archived from the original on March 14, 2024. Retrieved March 14, 2024.
^ Sheetz, Michael (March 14, 2024). "SpaceX's Starship notches major flight test milestones, breaks up over Indian Ocean in final moments". CNBC. Archived from the original on March 14, 2024. Retrieved March 14, 2024.
^ "SpaceX's Starship destroyed on return to Earth at end of third test flight". Theguardian. March 15, 2024. Archived from the original on March 15, 2024. Retrieved March 15, 2024.

[JSR-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h McDowell, Jonathan (March 14, 2024). "Jonathan's Space Report No. 831". Jonathan's Space Report. Archived from the original on March 29, 2019. Retrieved March 14, 2024.

[2] "Narrative Description: STA Application No. 2224-EX-ST-2023". Federal Communications Commission. November 8, 2023. Retrieved March 14, 2024.

[Spx-review-3] "Starship's Third Flight Test". SpaceX. Archived from the original on March 6, 2024. Retrieved March 14, 2024.

[NYT-20240314kc-4] Chang, Kenneth (March 14, 2024). "SpaceX Blazes Forward With Latest Starship Launch". The New York Times. Archived from the original on March 14, 2024. Retrieved March 14, 2024.

[5] Sheetz, Michael (March 14, 2024). "SpaceX's Starship notches major flight test milestones, breaks up over Indian Ocean in final moments". CNBC. Archived from the original on March 14, 2024. Retrieved March 14, 2024.

[6] "SpaceX's Starship destroyed on return to Earth at end of third test flight". Theguardian. March 15, 2024. Archived from the original on March 15, 2024. Retrieved March 15, 2024.

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