Altitude
0.0 km
+0 m/s vert
Inertial Velocity
0 m/s
Mach 0.00
Dynamic Press (Q)
0.0 kPa
Max: 0.0 kPa
Pitch Angle
90.0°
Vertical Climb
Downrange
0.0 km
1.50 G-force
Apogee / Perigee
0 / -6371 km
Ground Trajectory
Orbital Mechanics & Gravity Turn
Reaching orbit is not merely going up—it is moving horizontally fast enough (~7.8 km/s or 28,000 km/h) that the Earth curves away at the same rate gravity pulls the spacecraft down.
- Gravity Turn: Tilting downrange allows gravity to curve the velocity vector naturally toward horizontal without spending valuable propellant steering against aerodynamic lift.
- Max-Q: The moment of maximum aerodynamic stress occurring when air density multiplied by the square of velocity reaches its peak (~30–42 kPa).
Starship Staging & Architecture
Starship relies on Hot Staging: the Ship upper stage ignites its 6 Raptor engines while still physically joined with Super Heavy, venting thrust through a stainless-steel slotted interstage ring to eliminate dead-thrust deceleration.
- Super Heavy (Booster): 33 Sea-level Raptor engines generating ~74 Meganewtons (~16.7M lbf) of lift-off thrust.
- Starship (Ship): 3 Sea-level + 3 Vacuum Raptors burning liquid methane (CH₄) and liquid oxygen (LOX).
Telemetry Analysis & Data Export
Inspect or export complete sub-second flight logs with time, altitude, horizontal velocity, vertical climb rate, instantaneous acceleration, dynamic pressure, and orbital apogee/perigee for trajectory benchmarking.
- Calculated using variable atmospheric scale heights (barometric model, 7.2 km).
- Tsiolkovsky mass depletion calculated at 3,300 m/s (Booster SL) and 3,750 m/s (Ship Vac) effective exhaust velocity.