Launch Detail
Pulling launch timing, vehicle context, weather signals, and mission evidence.
Launch detail
SpaceX • Starship Prototype • Suborbital Pad A (TX)
SpaceX • Starship Prototype • Suborbital Pad A
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.
Stream links and embedded coverage.
Latest posts from @SpaceX.
Open the launch pad in Google Maps satellite mode using the pad coordinates.
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.
Prototype of SpaceX's Starship, a fully reusable second stage and space vehicle.
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.
Provider, rocket, pad, and booster history tied to this launch.
Core-level mission cadence associated with this launch.
Launch-stage and landing context surfaced from LL2 when it exists.
SN10 is a Starship Prototype similar in design to SN9. SN10 was destroyed during an explosion on the pad after landing.
Linked via Spaceflight News API (SNAPI).
ArticleSpaceX has published a new 4K video recapping Starship’s first intact landing after a high-altitude launch right as the company is preparing...
ArticleJust one month after the Starship SN9 test flight, its successor SN10 launched. This time, SpaceX got much closer to a complete success. SN10 was the first p...
ArticleIn what has become a bit of a tradition, CEO Elon Musk has taken to Twitter again to explain the outcome of...
Article"One day, the true measure of success will be that Starship flights are commonplace."
ArticleMusk says he is confident Starship will be ready for a lunar flight in three years.
ArticleThe latest prototype of SpaceX’s Starship launch vehicle — Starship SN10 — took off from the company’s South Texas test site and flew to an altitude of more...
