Partial Failure
10 km Flight
Test Flight
SpaceX(SpX)CommercialStarship Prototype
Suborbit
The SN9 Starship performed a first flight similar to the one of SN8. It launched up to an altitude of 10 km or 33,000 ft, did a belly flop maneuver and a controlled descent to the landing pad where the landing flip maneuver was unsuccessful and resulted in the destruction of the prototype on impact.
Tuesday, February 2, 2021 at 8:25 PM
Replay
Links
Status Details
Failure Reason
Destroyed on landing
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
#121
Pad Launch
#1
Location Launch
#6
Launch Window
NET
Feb 2, 2021, 8:25 PM
Schedule Changes
1 update
Lift Off
3:00 PM
Window Open
11:59 PM
Window Close
Social Flight Log
- Feb 2, 2021, 7:01 AM
SpaceX has received clearance to launch from the FAA and Boca Chica Village residents have been asked to evacuate. Launch is GO for today's window, but the T-0 is not known precisely.
Source - Jan 29, 2021, 2:51 PM
No flight today. Next attempt TBD
Source - Jan 28, 2021, 5:39 PM
No flight today. Next attempt tomorrow.
Source - Jan 28, 2021, 3:55 AM
Changing to 10 km, setting GO for now
Source - Jan 25, 2021, 8:07 PM
No flight today
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
Feb 2, 2021, 2:25 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