Partial Failure
12.5 km Flight
Test Flight
SpaceX(SpX)CommercialStarship Prototype
Suborbit
The SN8 Starship prototype was destroyed when attempting to land after a first flight to an altitude of 12.5 km or 41,000 ft.
Wednesday, December 9, 2020 at 10:45 PM
Replay
Links
Status Details
Failure Reason
Test completed set out objectives, but the vehicle failed to land successfully due to low pressure in the propellant header tanks cutting out the engines.
Mission details
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
#115
Pad Launch
#5
Location Launch
#5
Launch Window
NET
Dec 9, 2020, 10:45 PM
Schedule Changes
1 update
Lift Off
2:00 PM
Window Open
11:00 PM
Window Close
Social Flight Log
- Dec 9, 2020, 9:26 PM
new T-0 22:40 UTC
Source - Dec 9, 2020, 9:25 PM
NET 22:40 utc
- Dec 9, 2020, 8:58 PM
updated T-0
Source - Dec 9, 2020, 8:49 PM
Changed T-0 to 21:10 UTC, will be updated again once SpaceX stream is live
Source - Dec 9, 2020, 8:19 PM
Set to GO, but T-0 kept to 21:30 UTC based on the NASA airborne surveillance plane flight plan.
Source - Dec 9, 2020, 6:48 PM
Pushed T-0 to 21:30 UTC to match the new flight plan of NASA's airborne surveillance plane.
Source - Dec 9, 2020, 5:23 PM
Pushed T-0 to 20:00 UTC to roughly match the flight plan of NASA's airborne surveillance plane.
Source - Dec 8, 2020, 10:40 PM
Standing down for today. Moved to tomorrow's window.
Source - Dec 8, 2020, 10:16 PM
adjusted T-0 to 22:30 UTC
Source - Dec 8, 2020, 8:28 PM
Updated T-0 to fit the new flight plan of NASA's airborne surveillance plane.
Source - Dec 8, 2020, 8:14 PM
Slight push of the T-0 to account for fuel loading duration
- Dec 8, 2020, 5:12 PM
Pushed T-0 all the way to 2100 UTC to match the flight plan of a NASA airborne surveillance aircraft.
Source - Dec 7, 2020, 8:11 PM
Set to GO with T-0 at the beginning of the TFR. Subject to change.
- Dec 3, 2020, 11:50 PM
Pushed to Monday based off road closures and flight restrictions.
Source - Dec 2, 2020, 4:10 PM
TFR published for december 4 to 6, 14:00 to 23:00 UTC.
Source - Nov 21, 2020, 8:47 AM
Changed status
Source
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
Dec 9, 2020, 4:45 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