10 km Flight
Starship SN10
SpaceX
Mission
10 km Flight
Type: Test Flight
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.
Trajectory
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Location
Launch Pad A
SpaceX Space Launch Facility, TX, USA
9 rockets have launched from SpaceX Space Launch Facility, TX, USA.
Rocket
Starship Prototype – SpaceX
- Family: Starship
- Length: 50 m
- Diameter: 9 m
- Launch Mass: 45 T
The Starship Prototype was manufactured by SpaceX with the first launch on 2019-07-26. Starship Prototype has 6 successful launches and 3 failed launches with a total of 9 launches. Prototype of SpaceX’s Starship, a fully reusable second stage and space vehicle.
Core Landing
SN10 performed a hard landing on the pad damaging its structure and resulting in an explosive destruction a few minutes later.
SpaceX Starship Landing Pad – LZ
This is the landing pad used for early Starship development flights.
Return to Launch Site – RTLS
A return to launch site usually means that after stage separation the booster flips and does a burn back towards the launch site, landing near where it initially launched from.
Agency
SpaceX – SpX
- Type: Commercial
- Abbreviation: SpX
- Administration: CEO: Elon Musk
- Founded: 2002
- Launchers: Falcon | Starship
- Spacecraft: Dragon
- Country: USA
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.
This thing better land this time. If anybody were to be on it, the least Elon could do was put an abort system on that thing. Or, have the 4th of July happen early in Boca Chica, Texas.
Maybe you could become a billionaire and build your own rocket company?
Nope
NO WAY. BUT COULD YOU?!?!
lol do you know how many times we failed before the wright brothers flight? probably hundreds of times, maybe thousands. an abort system is compleately irrelavant at this early stage of developpement. i hope they dont waste time on this. patience is mother of all virtues, without it we wont… Read more »
No need to rant about Elon. This is the prototyping phase and it is good its happining now and not later, when humans are onboard. This is exactly the reason, why they are prototyping.
Oh, it will land. Gravity will make sure of that.
Lets hope it properly lands, though. Otherwise, somehow the 4th of July has happened early in Boca Chica, Texas
Wish great success！We will win！
I agree!This time let’s stick the landing.
Okay, we need a good landing AND for it to actually launch today (don’t like scrubs)
We had an OKAY landing. At least it didn’t explode at landing. Hope for SN11 to officially stick the landing
I am so glad the landing finally stuck.