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Starship | SN11 | High-Altitude Flight Test

On Tuesday, March 30, SpaceX launched its fourth high-altitude flight test of Starship from Starbase in Texas. Similar to previous high-altitude flight tests, Starship Serial Number 11 (SN11) was powe...

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Full Replay: Starship SN11 test flight from a foggy Boca Chica, Texas

SpaceX is set to launch the Starship SN11 prototype to an altitude of approximately 10 kilometers. A launch attempt is possible in the morning local time on Tuesday. However, as with testing, there is...

SCRUB: Starship SN11 Test Flight Scrubbed

SpaceX is set to launch the Starship SN11 prototype to an altitude of approximately 10 kilometers. A launch attempt is possible in the afternoon local time on Monday. However, as with testing, there i...

SCRUB: Starship SN11 flight test scrubbed, but earlier static fire looked good

SpaceX is set to launch the Starship SN11 prototype to an altitude of approximately 10 kilometers. A launch attempt is possible in the afternoon local time on Friday. However, as with testing, there i...

10 km Flight

Overview

Destination: Suborbital
Mission: Test Flight

Suborbital Suborbital Pad B SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
SN11 - SpaceX Starship Landing Pad

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.

Updates

Nosu • March 30, 2021, 2:12 p.m.

Starship SN11 launch failure, possibly due to engine issues.


Nosu • March 30, 2021, 11:10 a.m.

Boca Chica road closure and evacuation confirmed for a Starship SN11 launch attempt as early as 13:00 UTC.


Nosu • March 29, 2021, 3:36 p.m.

Starship SN11 launch NET tomorrow (March 30).


Nosu • March 26, 2021, 8:30 p.m.

Starship SN11 launch NET Monday (March 29).


Nosu • March 26, 2021, 7:43 p.m.

No Starship SN11 launch today.


Starship Prototype

Family:
Configuration: Prototype

Prototype of SpaceX's Starship, a fully reusable second stage and space vehicle.

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Specifications
  • Stages
    1
  • Length
    50.0 m
  • Diameter
    9.0 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    9.0 m
  • Launch Mass
    45.0 T
  • Thrust
Family
  • Name
    Starship Prototype
  • Family
  • Variant
    Prototype
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Starship Prototype
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

Booster Info


SN11


Type: Core
Flight Proven: No
First Flight: March 30, 2021
Last Flight: March 30, 2021
Flights: 1
Landings Attempted: 1

Landing Information

Starship SN11 failed to land back at the launch site after its high-altitude flight.

Result: SN11 did not land successfully.

SpaceX

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CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 587 Failures: 15 Pending: 118

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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.

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