Fifth integrated Starship test flight: the Super Heavy booster returned to Starbase and was caught in mid-air by the launch tower's 'chopstick' arms for the first time, while the Ship flew a suborbital trajectory to a targeted splashdown in the Indian Ocean.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Sub
- Suborbital
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 5th
- of 6 Starship V1 flights
- Date and time
- 13 October 2024, 12:25 UTC
- Rocket
- Starship V1
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Orbital Launch Pad 1, SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
- Payload
- Test Flight
- Launches in 2024
- 187th of 263