150m Hop
Starship SN6
SpaceX
Mission
SN6 150m Hop
Type: Test Flight
The Starship SN6 prototype sucessfully performed a 150m hop similar to the one successfully performed by its predecessor SN5.
Trajectory
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Location
Launch Pad A
SpaceX Space Launch Facility, TX, USA
10 rockets have launched from SpaceX Space Launch Facility, TX, USA.
Core Landing
SN6 successfully landed at the Starship Landing Pad in Boca Chica, Texas after its first hop.
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.
