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SpaceX 10 km Flight Starship SN1 Test Flight

Feb 24, 2023
Website and App: https://www.spacelaunchschedule.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpaceLaunchSchedule Twitter: https://twitter.com/SpaceLaunches Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spacelaunchschedule/ Mission 10 km Flight Type: Test Flight The SN11 Starship prototype performed a test flight similar to SN8, SN9 and SN10. It launched up to an altitude of 10 km or 33,000 ft and did a belly flop maneuver followed by a controlled descent, but got destroyed during the landing maneuver. Location Launch Pad B SpaceX Space Launch Facility, TX, USA 7 rockets have launched from SpaceX Space Launch Facility, TX, USA. Launch Pad B, SpaceX Space Launch Facility, TX, USA Rocket Starship Prototype Length: 50 meters Diameter: 9 meters First Launch: July 26, 2019 Prototype of SpaceX’s Starship, a fully reusable second stage and space vehicle. The Starship Prototype rocket has been launched a total of 8 times with 5 successful and 3 failed launches. Landing Starship SN11 failed to land back at the launch site after its high-altitude flight. SpaceX Starship Landing Pad – LZ This is the landing pad used for early Starship development flights. Return to Launch Site – RTLS A return to launch site usually means that after stage separation the booster flips and does a burn back towards the launch site, landing near where it initially launched from. Agency SpaceX Type: Commercial Abbreviation: SpX Administration: CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Launchers: Falcon Spacecraft: Dragon Country: USA 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 has many pads, on the East Coast of the US they own SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral and LC-39A at the Kennedy Space Center for their lower inclination launches. They also own SLC-4E at Vandenberg, California for their high inclination launches. Another site is also being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.
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