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Starship | SN10 | High-Altitude Flight Test

On Wednesday, March 3, Starship serial number (SN10) successfully completed SpaceX’s third high-altitude flight test of a Starship prototype from our site in Cameron County, Texas. Similar to the hig...

Full Replay: Starship SN10 Flight Test, Landing, and Post-Flight BOOM!

SpaceX is set to launch the Starship SN10 prototype to an altitude of approximately 10 kilometers. A launch attempt is possible between 9 am and 6 pm Central time on Wednesday. However, as with testin...

Watch SpaceX launch Starship SN10, at the edge of the exclusion zone!

Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:35 - Prelaunch Preview 00:06:00 - Q&A 02:30:00 - Tour of the Telescope Tracker 02:38:30 - Q&A 05:11:10 - Launch Attempt / Abort 05:15:00 - Break 08:10:35 - T - 1 Min...

10 km Flight

Overview

Destination: Suborbital
Mission: Test Flight

Suborbital Suborbital Pad A SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
SN10 - SpaceX Starship Landing Pad

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.

Updates

Nosu • March 3, 2021, 11:23 p.m.

Successful flight overall, but SN10 landed too hard resulting in a RUD a few minutes after touchdown.


Nosu • March 3, 2021, 10:40 p.m.

Currently targeting 23:13 UTC


Nosu • March 3, 2021, 8:41 p.m.

Second attempt confirmed


Nosu • March 3, 2021, 8:33 p.m.

Second attempt possible in 2 hours.


Nosu • March 3, 2021, 8:21 p.m.

Abort at ignition. Standing by for a possible second attempt today.


Starship Prototype

Family:
Configuration: Prototype

Prototype of SpaceX's Starship, a fully reusable second stage and space vehicle.

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Specifications
  • Stages
    1
  • Length
    50.0 m
  • Diameter
    9.0 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    9.0 m
  • Launch Mass
    45.0 T
  • Thrust
Family
  • Name
    Starship Prototype
  • Family
  • Variant
    Prototype
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Starship Prototype
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

Booster Info


SN10


Type: Core
Flight Proven: No
First Flight: March 3, 2021
Last Flight: March 3, 2021
Flights: 1
Landings Attempted: 1

Landing Information

SN10 performed a hard landing on the pad damaging its structure and resulting in an explosive destruction a few minutes later.

Result: SN10 did not land successfully.

SpaceX

SpaceX

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CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 604 Failures: 15 Pending: 116

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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.

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