Starship SN9 | 10 km Flight
Launch Pad B
SpaceX Space Launch Facility, TX, USA
The SN9 Starship prototype will attempt a first flight similar to the one performed by SN8. It consists of a powered ascent to an altitude of 10 km or 32,800 ft, followed by a belly flop maneuver, controlled descent, landing flip maneuver and landing.
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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 has many pads, on the East Coast of the US they own SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral and LC-39A at the Kennedy Space Center for their lower inclination launches. They also own SLC-4E at Vandenberg, California for their high inclination launches. Another site is also being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.
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 4
Consecutive Success 4
Maiden Flight 2019-07-26
Launch Failures 1
Core
Serial SN9
Status active
Flight Proven No
Flights 0
Landing Attempt Yes
Landing Success Unknown
Type RTLS
Location LZ
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.
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