(NET) Super Heavy B3 • IFT-12 Starship B3

(NET) Super Heavy B3 • IFT-12 Starship B3

A SpaceX Super Heavy rocket will launch a Starship prototype on its eleventh test flight, designated IFT-12 (Integrated Flight Test). Starship will be a stretched version equipped with Raptor 3 engines and perform a payload deployment test with 8? Starlink v3 simulators and a relight of a single Raptor engine while in space. Super Heavy will also use Raptor 3 engines and perform a RTLS landing at the launch tower. It will have have an integrated vented interstage/forward dome, three grid fins instead of the prior four, as well as the use of the grid fins as catch points. The booster/ship combination is designated as B19/S39, both of the Block 3 variant. - Delayed from March. Webcast: https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-12

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