# SpaceX Starship-Super Heavy Twelfth Flight Test
**URL:** https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/spacex-starship-super-heavy-twelfth-flight-test/6344
**Category:** The Happening World
**Tags:** starship, space, starbase, spacex
**Created:** [10 May 2026 21:09 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/spacex-starship-super-heavy-twelfth-flight-test/6344 "2026-05-10T21:09:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/CTLaw)
#### Post date: [10 May 2026 21:09 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/spacex-starship-super-heavy-twelfth-flight-test/6344/1 "2026-05-10T21:09:32Z")
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou6rUKyNmUQ)
> **[SpaceX](https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-12)**
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> SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.
This topic discusses the forthcoming SpaceX twelfth flight test of the integrated [Starship](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship) ([#39](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Starship_vehicles#Ship_39)) and [Super Heavy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Super_Heavy) booster ([#19](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Super_Heavy_boosters#B19)), currently scheduled for launch no earlier than 2026-05-21 22:30 UTC with a 90 minute launch window. This is the first Block 3 flight and the first to launch from Tower 2. The planned flight, if successful, will , mirroring prior flights ,launch the craft on a near-orbital trajectory, with the first stage booster performing a boost back burn and **hard** water landing in the Gulf of America, and the upper stage Starship accelerating to a velocity slightly less than orbital speed, causing it to re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.
Scrubbed wet dress rehearsal 2026-05-09 CDT.
Completed wet dress rehearsal 2026-05-11 CDT.
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### Author:  [@CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/CTLaw)
#### Post date: [21 May 2026 22:14 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/spacex-starship-super-heavy-twelfth-flight-test/6344/2 "2026-05-21T22:14:20Z")
> Now targeting 6:30 p.m. CT for liftoff of Starship
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> — SpaceX (@SpaceX) [May 21, 2026](https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/2057581356423462964?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
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### Author:  [@CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/CTLaw)
#### Post date: [21 May 2026 23:40 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/spacex-starship-super-heavy-twelfth-flight-test/6344/3 "2026-05-21T23:40:27Z")
Scrub.
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### Author:  [@pturmel](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/pturmel)
#### Post date: [22 May 2026 12:24 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/spacex-starship-super-heavy-twelfth-flight-test/6344/4 "2026-05-22T12:24:35Z")
Hydraulic failure on the pad:
[https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2057609682865254695](https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2057609682865254695)
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### Author:  [@CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/CTLaw)
#### Post date: [22 May 2026 16:51 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/spacex-starship-super-heavy-twelfth-flight-test/6344/5 "2026-05-22T16:51:23Z")
> Counting down to our second launch attempt, the 90-minute test window opens at 5:30 p.m. CT with live coverage starting ~30 minutes before liftoff. Weather is currently 85% favorable for flight → [https://t.co/2gZQUxS6mm](https://t.co/2gZQUxS6mm)
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> — SpaceX (@SpaceX) [May 22, 2026](https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/2057845419523117292?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
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### Author:  [@CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/CTLaw)
#### Post date: [29 May 2026 01:13 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/spacex-starship-super-heavy-twelfth-flight-test/6344/6 "2026-05-29T01:13:35Z")
> **[FAA orders SpaceX to investigate Starship V3 booster failure | TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/27/faa-orders-spacex-to-investigate-starship-v3-booster-failure/)**
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> Starship is grounded until SpaceX finds out why the first V3 booster failed during its first test flight.
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### Author:  [@civilwestman](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/civilwestman)
#### Post date: [31 May 2026 12:12 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/spacex-starship-super-heavy-twelfth-flight-test/6344/7 "2026-05-31T12:12:56Z")
Yeah - without the FAA ordering it, Space X wouldn’t do it? Bureaucratic performance art.