Starship Prototype

Status

Suborbital

Partial Failure

10-Kilometer Test Flight

Launch Time
Tue Feb 02, 2021 20:25 UTC

SN9 failed to reignite one of its engines for its landing burn and failed to land.

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Rocket

Starship Prototype

Image Credit: SpaceX

SpaceX

Status: Active

Liftoff Thrust: 5,300 kN

Stages: 1

Strap-ons: 0

Rocket Height: 50.3 m

Fairing Diameter: 9.0 m

Details

Vehicles

Starbase Landing Zone A

SN9

Flight #1

2nd Starship recovery attempt

2nd failed Starship recovery

Manifest

Mission Details

10-Kilometer Test Flight

SpaceX conducted a suborbital test flight of the Starship SN9 prototype to an altitude of approximately 10 kilometers. SN9 attempted a propulsive landing on SpaceX's South Texas Landing Zone after launch but due to an anomaly with engine 2's oxidizer-rich preburner, only one engine was able to reignite and SN9 crashed into the landing pad.

Suborbital

Location

Suborbital Pad B, Starbase, Texas, USA

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2nd mission

1st mission of 2021