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Flight 7

Starship, flown by SpaceX

Starship lifting off with the Flight 7 mission
Image via The Space Devs.

This was SpaceX's 9th launch of 2025, and its 458th in all.

It was the first launch from Orbital Launch Pad 1 in 2025.

Launched
Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025, 10:37 p.m. UTC
Window
Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025, 10:00 to 11:00 p.m. UTC
Launch site
SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
Rocket
Starship V2
Operator
SpaceX
Failure
Ship 33 lost all 6 engines gradually late in ascent and was observed to have self-destructed.

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The mission

Seventh test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle.

Type
Test flight
Destination
Suborbital
Program
SpaceX Starship

The SpaceX Starship is a fully reusable super heavy-lift launch vehicle under development by SpaceX since 2012, as a self-funded private spaceflight project. The second stage of the Starship — is designed as a long-duration cargo and passenger-carrying spacecraft. It is expected to be initially used without any booster stage at all, as part of an extensive development program to prove out launch-and-landing and iterate on a variety of design details, particularly with respect to the vehicle's atmospheric reentry.

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The rocket

Second development version of the Starship reusable two-stage super heavy-lift launch vehicle.

The operator

SpaceX

Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.

Sector
Commercial
Based in
USA
Founded
2002
Run by
Elon Musk, CEO

724 launches so far, 709 of them successful. The last 209 in a row went to plan.

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The launch site

It went up from Orbital Launch Pad 1 at SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA.

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