Starship | Fourth Flight Test

Starship’s fourth flight test launched with ambitious goals, attempting to go farther than any previous test before and begin demonstrating capabilities central to return and reuse of Starship and Super Heavy. The payload for this test was the data.

Starship delivered.

On June 6, 2024, Starship successfully lifted off at 7:50 a.m. CT from Starbase in Texas and went on to deliver maximum excitement.

The fourth flight of Starship made major strides to bring us closer to a rapidly reusable future. Its accomplishments will provide data to drive improvements as we continue rapidly developing Starship into a fully reusable transportation system designed to carry crew and cargo to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars and beyond.

[bryanwilson]

Starship makes me realize that I’m finally living in the future that my child self thought I’d never live to see.

[Trajectory_Aerospace]

The outercovering chipping away during re-entry was amazing visually

[terranscope]

Seeing all those people, "nerds" and all.. jumping and shouting and smiling with all the excitement.. is always the highlight for me.. Love you guys..Keep pushing us into the future.

[stephenmead]

I am 74 years old, 75 this year. I have been alive ever since the early experimental tests from the equipment recovered by the USA military under operation paperclip. Popular mechanics covered many of the early space technology, the dreams and futuristic views. But NOW with SpaceX in the space technology. But OMG how things have advance so far and so quickly, it is so brilliant. I just love it. Every day it is like a new era has arrived. More more. Cheers from New Zealand. 👍👍👍🍻🍻

[stephenholmgren]

Real life is quickly becoming the prologue to a scf-fi movie, this is an amazing time to be alive!

[RtB]

Must admit when I saw the plasma burn-through on the stabiliser fins I thought it was all over. The fact it made it all the way back is a great achievement. Starship is a beast.

[unusualkmc]

This was one of the greatest livestreams ever made.
The Texas landscape, the microphones in the launchpad, the cameras in the air and even in different States following the rocket from the ground, the signal cutout and waiting anxiously to see if the rocket was OK, the demonstration of the Starlink streaming capabilities on re-entry, the animations to explain what the rocket was doing and why, and the re-entry itself (something humans have never seen before), creating one of the most spectacular light shows ever created by man. And the drama at the end with the flap and camera breaking.
SpaceX makes every livestream a movie.

[chrisolsen]

Hats of to whomever put this together!!! Some of the best 2.40 min EVER!!

[chefprov]

I’ve watched this like 10 times, ,,, and the smile on my face won’t go away

[matthewgrundy]

Great video! Can't wait for test 5

[officerk]

The shot from the top of the booster going through the clouds. Insane im speechless

[EthelJung-jw]

Hate it when media says it was a failure... it was a success test! Good job people!

[CraziFuzzy]

Nothing is more empowering in this video than those in the control room not even believing how successful it was - that indicates the sheer size of the leaps each flight are attempting.

[AyaX]

This feels super advanced, Hats off to the SpaceX team!

[maheshtamang]

1:47 The plasma burning makes the starship look like its going on warp speed!

[mexicanbanjo]

Watching this as it happened in real time had me on the edge of my seat. Good luck on IFT-5!

[cogoid]

2:21 The looks on the faces are priceless! After all the drama with the fin burning through, even the creators of the ship cannot believe that in the end it still splashed down softly.

[imkuat]

1:46 MY FAVORITE SHOT IN THE WHOLE EDIT!!!! The music. The vibe. The visually bright reentry. The callouts. DAMN!!

[dedygames]

Watching the ship barely clinging to life was the craziest thing I've ever seen live

[zxk]

That moment were you start to see the fin moving through the broken glass is straight out of a movie.