Starship SN9 | 10 km Flight
Launch Pad B
SpaceX Space Launch Facility, TX, USA
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.
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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 2
Core
Serial SN9
Status destroyed
Flight Proven Yes
Flights 1
Landing Attempt Yes
Landing Success No
Type RTLS
Location LZ
Updates
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
2021-01-29T14:51:50+0000
No flight today. Next attempt TBD
Nosu
2021-01-28T17:39:29+0000
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
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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2021-01-06T22:07:00+0000
SpaceX performed a static fire on Starship SN9's three raptor engines.
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SpaceX conducted a second static fire test on Starship SN9's raptor engines.
Starship SN9 3rd Static Fire
2021-01-13T20:23:00+0000
SpaceX conducted a third static fire test on Starship SN9's raptor engines.
Starship SN9 4th Static Fire
2021-01-13T21:37:00+0000
SpaceX has conducted a fourth static fire test on Starship SN9's raptor engines.
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