Success
10 km Flight
Test Flight
SpaceX(SpX)CommercialStarship Prototype
Suborbit
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.
Wednesday, March 3, 2021 at 11:15 PM
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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.
Mar 1, 2019 — ongoing
SpX Mission
#124
Pad Launch
#6
Location Launch
#7
Launch Window
NET
Mar 3, 2021, 11:15 PM
Schedule Changes
1 update
Lift Off
3:00 PM
Window Open
12:00 AM
Window Close
Social Flight Log
- Mar 3, 2021, 11:23 PM
Successful flight overall, but SN10 landed too hard resulting in a RUD a few minutes after touchdown.
Source - Mar 3, 2021, 10:40 PM
Currently targeting 23:13 UTC
Source - Mar 3, 2021, 8:41 PM
Second attempt confirmed
Source - Mar 3, 2021, 8:33 PM
Second attempt possible in 2 hours.
Source - Mar 3, 2021, 8:21 PM
Abort at ignition. Standing by for a possible second attempt today.
Source - Mar 3, 2021, 7:49 PM
Currently targeting 20:14 UTC
Source - Mar 3, 2021, 2:12 PM
Current targeted T-0 is 15:54 UTC
Source - Mar 2, 2021, 7:48 PM
Potential flight attempt after the evacuation notices given out
Source - Mar 1, 2021, 7:58 AM
SN10 NET than Wednesday. Setting TBD until the evacuation notice is given to residents.
Source - Feb 28, 2021, 9:53 PM
Evacuation announced, potential hop attempt
Source - Feb 26, 2021, 7:12 AM
Road closure cancelled for today. Flight NET Monday March 1.
Source - Feb 25, 2021, 11:00 PM
Second static fire complete. Flight NET tomorrow (February 26).
- Feb 24, 2021, 2:13 PM
Road closure cancelled for today (Feb 24). Pushing the second static fire and the flight to February 25 and 26 respectively.
Source - Feb 24, 2021, 7:19 AM
One engine of SN10 will be swapped out and a new static fire attempted on February 24. Flight NET February 25 pending a successful static fire.
Source - Feb 23, 2021, 11:16 PM
After a first static fire, Starship SN10 is now expected to fly as early as February 25.
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SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
Starbase is an industrial complex for Starship rockets and the headquarters of the American aerospace manufacturer company SpaceX. Located near Brownsville, Texas, United States, it has been under construction since the late 2010s by SpaceX. Starbase is composed of a spaceport near the Gulf of Mexico, a production facility at the Boca Chica village, and a small structure test site along the Texas State Highway 4.
Timezone
America/Chicago
Local Launch Time
Mar 3, 2021, 5:15 PM
Total Launches
21
Total Landings
13
Coordinates
25.9970, -97.1570
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 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.
Founded
2002
Administrator
CEO: Elon Musk
Total Launches
681
Successful
666
Failed
15
Pending
120
Consecutive Success
166