SpaceX's first integrated Starship/Super Heavy orbital test flight lifted off from Starbase, Texas; multiple engines failed, the stages did not separate, and the tumbling vehicle was destroyed about four minutes in at roughly 39 km altitude, becoming the most powerful rocket ever flown.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- Sub
- Suborbital
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 1st
- of 6 Starship V1 flights
- Date and time
- 20 April 2023, 13:33 UTC
- Rocket
- Starship V1
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Orbital Launch Pad 1, SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
- Payload
- Test Flight
- Launches in 2023
- 62nd of 223