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STARSHIP/
Booster 14 and Ship 33 were the Super Heavy and Starship pair launched on Starship Flight 7. Booster 14 was successfully caught by the launch tower's chopstick arms, but Ship 33 experienced a RUD (rapid unscheduled disassembly) shortly before scheduled engine cutoff, and did not complete its part of the mission.
Seventh flight of Starship and Super Heavy, using Ship 33 stacked on Booster 14. Full mission profile will be similar to Flight 6, with the addition of 10 Starlink simulators that will be deployed into the same suborbital trajectory as Ship 33, the first Block 2 ship. After stage separation, Booster 14 — which will reuse a Raptor engine flown on Booster 12 — will attempt a catch in the launch tower arms, similar to that done successfully by Booster 12 on Starship Flight 5.
The Flight 7 stack — Booster 14 and Ship 33 — conducted a Wet Dress Rehearsal (WDR) to verify all changes to the vehicles and ground support equipment function as intended ahead of launch.