Starship SN9 | 10 km Flight
Launch was a Partial Failure
Destroyed on landingL - -- : -- : -- : --
Launch Window
Feb. 2, 2021, 3 p.m. - Feb. 2, 2021, 11:59 p.m.
Feb. 2, 2021, 3 p.m. - Feb. 2, 2021, 11:59 p.m.
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.
Geoff Barrett is an independent graphic artist that creates launch infographics for space flight events.
SpaceX has received clearance to launch from the FAA and Boca Chica Village residents have been asked to evacuate. Launch is GO for today's window, but the T-0 is not known precisely.
No flight today. Next attempt TBD
No flight today. Next attempt tomorrow.
Prototype of SpaceX's Starship, a fully reusable second stage and space vehicle.
See Starship Details
SN9 was destroyed on landing.
Result: SN9 did not land successfully.
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.
INFO WIKI
Two days after a last-second failure caused Starship SN9 to smash into the ground and explode, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has returned...
SpaceX launched a prototype Starship rocket Tuesday from its Boca Chica, Texas, flight facility, successfully sending the silver booster up to an altitude of about six miles as planned. But the unpiloted test flight ended with a spectacula…
A second prototype of SpaceX’s Starship reusable launch vehicle performed a suborbital flight Feb. 2, only to crash while landing.
SpaceX Starship prototype serial number 9 (SN9) has suffered a fate almost identical to its successor, SN8, acing an almost six-and-a-half-minute launch,...
Starship completed a successful climb to approximately 10 kilometers altitude and then descended horizontally toward the landing site. It appeared to lose control as it was in the process of flipping back to a vertical position and explode…
A batch of 21 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
A batch of 22 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
New high resolution Earth observation satellite for the Jilin-1 commercial Earth observation satellites constellation.
A batch of 22 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Payload consists of a single SAR Earth-imaging Acadia satellite, a new generation satellite designed, manufactured, and operated by Capella Space.
Chinese reconnaissance satellites.
A batch of satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Soyuz MS-24 carried two cosmonauts and one astronaut to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in K…
Third flight of the Firefly Alpha small sat launcher, carrying a payload for the US Department of Defense.
A batch of 21 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
