Full Replay: SpaceX Launches Second Starship Flight Test

SpaceX is targeting Saturday for the second flight of Starship. The company has received regulatory approval for the flight. The flight will feature the newly added hot staging ring, allowing the Ship to separate from the Booster while the Booster engines are still firing. The stack features multiple upgrades compared to the first flight, including 63 upgrades SpaceX submitted to the FAA to mitigate issues from the first flight. Ahead of the launch, SpaceX will close the road, evacuate the village and surrounding area, and clear the potential blast radius.

Booster 9 will attempt a soft splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico, while Ship 25 will attempt to fly around the earth before performing a reentry and hard splashdown in the Hawaiian area.

Window Opens: November 18th at 7AM CST (13:00 UTC)
Window Closes: November 18th at 7:20AM CST (13:20 UTC)

Mission: Starship's second fully integrated test flight
Vehicles: Booster 9 and Ship 25
Recovery: No recovery. Booster will attempt soft splashdown, Ship will not and instead will impact the ocean
Stats:
· SpaceX's 85th launch of the year and the 6th launch of the month
· SpaceX's 2nd space launch from Starbase
· Starship will, once again, become the largest, most massive, and most powerful rocket every created breaking its own record.

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[NASASpaceflight]

Thanks to all who were watching the livestream. Peaked at 260, 000 viewing at the same time!

[jeroenk]

That booster explosion looked magnificent, it looked like a super nova nebula. Thank you SpaceX and NSF, well done.

[alexb-b]

Lift Off - 8:56:02
Stage Sep - 8:58:49
Booster RUD - 8:59:24
Ship RUD - 9:04:18

[stevengaming]

Thank you, NASASpaceflight for making amazing content for us, and the whole spaceflight community!

[chllspace]

Booster phase of flight was flawless. I'm highly confident that IFT-3 will reach reentry.

[MrDoyley]

The scale is just hard to comprehend. It’s essentially a small skyscraper launched into space. Just unbelievable!!

[holographicman]

This is insane I hade to meet an old friend today and it was at the exact time with the launch. So thanks guys, I went back to your stream and just had to see it with no spoilers full on, absolutely amazing. Yeah and my friend was well so I'm so happy!

[joelilema]

Hopefully, the next launch will take place within the next 3 months. January will be amazing!

[aldunlop]

Watched it live last night just wanted to comment on this video my HUGE thanks to NSF and anyone else involved. The amount of passion, love and effort you guys put it is very uplifting. To Mars!

[corycrandell]

Absolutely spectacular launch and flight! Great success. 25 almost made it to orbit!

[justthisguyyouknow]

Big bada boom - to SpaceX's profits! Keep the successes coming!

[Mary_iiv]

2 mln views and the live broadcast has just ended. crazy!!! congrats and thank you all for the coverage!

[cavaliers]

Good lord that was amazing!!! That launch couldn’t have been better! Engines looked great! Separation looked flawless! Can’t wait to see them catch it next time! We are witnessing history here!

[heyimjustaguy]

Watched so many Space X flights since the beginning, this one impressed me

[theshrew]

Great day thanks NSF amazing launch day coverage as always

[hectorpascale]

@ 8:56:11 Explosion/fireball near the grid fin pointing to the camera before it passes the mechazilla arm

[RILDIGITAL]

Wow, this is thoroughly exciting! I'm thrilled to take part in the witnessing of this phenomenal moment in history - the second flight of Starship. The hard work, diligence, technicality, and dynamic nature of all the team involved in this endeavor are applaudable. I stand in awe of the technical feats and leaps into the future through space exploration – truly, we rise together beyond the moon and even further. Let's do this, together, as we're ushered into an unprecedented era of space exploration!

[JosWRSM]

Thank you for your beautiful and interesting videos

[franciscozavala]

Totally awesome great improvements engines running smooth separation of second stage maybe a little trouble but it looked awesome and worked. Mars seems closer every time congratulations to all SpaceX and everyone involved in this magnificent achievements and hard work to achieve perfection and human evolution. 👍👍👍👍

[clicks_by_mirza]

Huge Congratulations to SpaceX & entire team for achieving the milestone. ❤
Go SpaceX - - Go Starship 🚀✈. Conquer the Moon 🎑 - Mars & beyond.