SN10

Six 'SN10' stories February 2021 - March 2021

[Update: Recap footage from SpaceX] SpaceX lands first Starship vehicle vertically, still wows onlookers with a fireball spectacle

Seth Kurkowski Mar 17 2021 - 10:54 am PT

On March 3rd, 2021 SpaceX launch their SN10 Starship vehicle for their third test to acquire more data for verifying the Starship design and attempt again to try to fly and land a vehicle of this size. Starship has promised a cheaper and sustainable future for space exploration and with each test flight that future becomes closer.

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[Update: Launched] Starship SN10 aborts on test stand before high altitude flight, new attempt later today

Seth Kurkowski Mar 3 2021 - 2:35 pm PT

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Teams at SpaceX’s South Texas test facility have been working to get SN10 ready to fly its first high altitude flight. After 2 static fires and a swap of a raptor engine SN10 finally stood on its test stand ready to fly but the computer called an abort just before liftoff.

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[Update: second static fire] Starship SN10: First static fire of test campaign followed by a swap of one of the engines

Seth Kurkowski Feb 26 2021 - 1:20 am PT

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After a relatively quiet week at SpaceX’s Starship facility in Boca Chica, Texas we finally got to see Starship SN10 come to life for a quick static fire on Test Stand A. The vehicle has been out on the pad for about a month now, being moved from the manufactory facility while SN9 was still on Test Stand B.

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Starship SN10: Possible static fire as soon as Monday

Seth Kurkowski Feb 21 2021 - 7:44 pm PT

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With NASA’s Perseverance rover was taking up much of the limelight last week, we didn’t see much in terms of Starship activity other than lots of improvements to the landing facility and further work on future Starship vehicles but that might change this week.

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Starship: Elon gives a rough road map for the program while testing continues on SN10

Seth Kurkowski Feb 10 2021 - 9:00 pm PT

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Last week SpaceX launched their SN9 Starship prototype to an almost fully successful flight only missing the landing due to issues relighting one of the two Raptor engines needed for the flip and landing maneuver. This is something Elon Musk has already hinted at a possible fix that we might see on their next prototype which has already begun test at their site in South Texas.

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SpaceX Starship SN9 test flight at the mercy of FAA as SN10 joins Texas launchpad

Seth Kurkowski Feb 1 2021 - 8:54 am PT

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The saga of getting Starship SN9 to launch continues after the FAA, which oversees commercial space launch licenses, did not approve SpaceX’s request to launch last week. This pushes the nearest possible launch opportunity to this week. In the meantime, SpaceX kept teams busy by bringing the next Starship prototype to its pad to begin testing.

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