Starship SN15 | 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 SN15 Starship prototype will perform a test flight similar to SN8 to SN11. It will launch up to an altitude of 10 km or 33,000 ft and do a belly flop maneuver followed by a controlled descent to the landing pad.
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 SN15
Status retired
Flight Proven Yes
Flights 1
Landing Attempt Yes
Landing Success Yes
Type RTLS
Location LZ
Updates
Nosu
2021-05-05T22:38:06+0000
Successful launch and landing of Starship SN15.
Nosu
2021-05-05T21:48:45+0000
Starship SN15 launch attempt at approximately 22:20 UTC, per SpaceX stream.
Altrius
2021-05-05T20:25:06+0000
Road has been opened, Starship SN15 flight still possible towards the end of the window.
Koun7erfit
2021-05-05T17:38:40+0000
Everything is very subject to change - however Boca Chica village is evacuated, road closed and all is looking good for an attempt today.
Altrius
2021-05-04T16:02:31+0000
No evacuation notice for today. Starship SN15 flight NET May 5.
Koun7erfit
2021-05-04T02:59:02+0000
May the 4th is shaping up to be a good opportunity - weather seems to be good, road closures and residents have been notified. Stay tuned tomorrow!
Nosu
2021-04-30T17:48:57+0000
Road closure cancelled for today. Starship SN15 flight NET Monday.
Nosu
2021-04-30T08:00:58+0000
SN15 flight NET 15:00 UTC on Sunday the 3rd pending evacuation and appropriate weather conditions.
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 SN15 Static Fire #2
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SpaceX performed an additional static fire of the Starship SN15 vehicle.
Starship SN15 Static Fire
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SpaceX performed a static fire of the Starship SN15 vehicle.
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