Starship SN10 | 10 km Flight

Launch Provider & Rocket

• Provider: SpaceX (Commercial)
• Rocket: Starship Prototype — Starship family

Mission

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.

• Type: Test Flight
• Orbit: Suborbital (Sub)

Launch Site

• Pad: Suborbital Pad A
• Location: SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
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Program

• SpaceX Starship — 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. (Wikipedia)