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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.
The SN9 Starship performed a first flight similar to the one of SN8. It launched up to an altitude of 10 km or 33,000 ft, did a belly flop maneuver and a controlled descent to the landing pad where the landing flip maneuver was unsuccessful and resulted in the destruction of the prototype on impact.
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
Serial SN9
Status destroyed
Flight Proven Yes
Flights 1
Landing Attempt Yes
Landing Success No
Type RTLS
Location LZ
Nosu
2021-02-02T07:01:16+0000
SpaceX has received clearance to launch from the FAA and Boca Chica Village residents have been asked to evacuate. Launch is GO for today's window, but the T-0 is not known precisely.
Nosu
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No flight today. Next attempt TBD
Nosu
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No flight today. Next attempt tomorrow.
SwGustav
2021-01-28T03:55:17+0000
Changing to 10 km, setting GO for now
Nosu
2021-01-25T20:07:36+0000
No flight today
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.
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SpaceX has conducted a fourth static fire test on Starship SN9's raptor engines.
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SpaceX conducted a third static fire test on Starship SN9's raptor engines.
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SpaceX conducted a second static fire test on Starship SN9's raptor engines.
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SpaceX performed a static fire on Starship SN9's three raptor engines.
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