Starship SN10 | 10 km Flight
Suborbital Pad A
SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
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SpaceX
Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.
10 km Flight
The SN10 Starship performed a test flight similar to SN8 and SN9. It launched up to an altitude of 10 km or 33,000 ft, did a belly flop maneuver followed by a controlled descent to the landing pad. Despite successfully performing the landing flip maneuver with its three Raptor engines, its vertical velocity was too high on landing, damaging its structure and resulting in an explosive destruction a few minutes after touchdown.
Starship Prototype
Height 50.00 Meters
Max Stages 1
Mass To GTO 0 kg
Liftoff Thrust 2900 kN
Diameter 9.00 Meters
Mass To LEO 0 kg
Liftoff Mass 45 Tonnes
Launch Success 6
Consecutive Success 1
Maiden Flight 2019-07-26
Launch Failures 3
Core
Serial SN10
Status destroyed
Flight Proven Yes
Flights 1
Landing Attempt Yes
Landing Success No
Type RTLS
Location LZ
Updates
Nosu
2021-03-03T23:23:27+0000
Successful flight overall, but SN10 landed too hard resulting in a RUD a few minutes after touchdown.
Nosu
2021-03-03T22:40:09+0000
Currently targeting 23:13 UTC
Nosu
2021-03-03T20:41:47+0000
Second attempt confirmed
Nosu
2021-03-03T20:33:48+0000
Second attempt possible in 2 hours.
Nosu
2021-03-03T20:21:04+0000
Abort at ignition. Standing by for a possible second attempt today.
Nosu
2021-03-03T19:49:46+0000
Currently targeting 20:14 UTC
SwGustav
2021-03-03T14:12:40+0000
Current targeted T-0 is 15:54 UTC
SwGustav
2021-03-02T19:48:15+0000
Potential flight attempt after the evacuation notices given out
Nosu
2021-03-01T07:58:19+0000
SN10 NET than Wednesday. Setting TBD until the evacuation notice is given to residents.
SwGustav
2021-02-28T21:53:35+0000
Evacuation announced, potential hop attempt
Nosu
2021-02-26T07:12:01+0000
Road closure cancelled for today. Flight NET Monday March 1.
Nosu
2021-02-25T23:00:35+0000
Second static fire complete. Flight NET tomorrow (February 26).
Nosu
2021-02-24T14:13:48+0000
Road closure cancelled for today (Feb 24). Pushing the second static fire and the flight to February 25 and 26 respectively.
Nosu
2021-02-24T07:19:57+0000
One engine of SN10 will be swapped out and a new static fire attempted on February 24. Flight NET February 25 pending a successful static fire.
Nosu
2021-02-23T23:16:47+0000
After a first static fire, Starship SN10 is now expected to fly as early as February 25.
Programs
SpaceX Starship
The SpaceX Starship is a fully reusable super heavy-lift launch vehicle under development by SpaceX since 2012, as a self-funded private spaceflight project. The second stage of the Starship — is designed as a long-duration cargo and passenger-carrying spacecraft. It is expected to be initially used without any booster stage at all, as part of an extensive development program to prove out launch-and-landing and iterate on a variety of design details, particularly with respect to the vehicle's atmospheric reentry.
Related Events
Starship SN10 Static Fire #2
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SpaceX performed a second static fire of the Starship SN10 vehicle after swapping out one of its engines.
Starship SN10 Static Fire
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SpaceX successfully performed a static fire of the Starship SN10 vehicle.
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SpaceX aborts Starship launch after Raptors produce too much thrust
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SpaceX swaps “suspect” Starship engine in record time
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SpaceX Starship static fire bodes well for a launch later this week
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Teslarati
FAA clears SpaceX Starship prototype for third launch and landing attempt
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Starship SN10 Static Fires twice – Super Heavy waiting in the wings
2021-02-21T22:20:40+0000
Teslarati
SpaceX Starship ready to find out if third time’s the charm later this week
2021-02-08T10:06:41+0000
Teslarati
SpaceX wants to launch its next Starship ASAP
2021-02-07T23:56:21+0000
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