Starship SN9 | 10 km Flight

Launch Provider & Rocket

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

Mission

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.

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

Launch Site

• Pad: Suborbital Pad B
• 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)