Starship | SN10 | High-Altitude Flight Test
As early as Wednesday, March 3, the SpaceX team will attempt a high-altitude flight test of Starship serial number 10 (SN10) – our third high-altitude suborbital flight test of a Starship prototype from SpaceX’s site in Cameron County, Texas. Similar to the high-altitude flight tests of Starship SN8 and SN9, SN10 will be powered through ascent by three Raptor engines, each shutting down in sequence prior to the vehicle reaching apogee – approximately 10 km in altitude. SN10 will perform a propellant transition to the internal header tanks, which hold landing propellant, before reorienting itself for reentry and a controlled aerodynamic descent.
The Starship prototype will descend under active aerodynamic control, accomplished by independent movement of two forward and two aft flaps on the vehicle. All four flaps are actuated by an onboard flight computer to control Starship’s attitude during flight and enable precise landing at the intended location. SN10’s Raptor engines will then reignite as the vehicle attempts a landing flip maneuver immediately before touching down on the landing pad adjacent to the launch mount.
A controlled aerodynamic descent with body flaps and vertical landing capability, combined with in-space refilling, are critical to landing Starship at destinations across the solar system where prepared surfaces or runways do not exist, and returning to Earth. This capability will enable a fully reusable transportation system designed to carry both crew and cargo on long-duration, interplanetary flights and help humanity return to the Moon, and travel to Mars and beyond.
Given the dynamic schedule of development testing, stay tuned to our social media channels for updates as we move toward SpaceX’s third high-altitude flight test of Starship!
Congrats Elon and spaceX !!
@Graeme Johnson Government is preparing for natural earth disaster. Massive asteroid cloud coming in, sloar flares, nuke wars etc. So NASA contracted with Musk so they can act in secret to create SPACE STATIONS to live in while we all roast in radiation caused by THEM. Those flimsy ships in NO WAY are going to mars. They are going to orbit the earth while PISSING ON OUR FLAMING BODIES and living it up with HOOKERS and drugs. Don’t forget, their commute to earth is 10 minutes. THATS why they self landing ships. Refuel for food and new HOOKERS. Why ELSE? To save MONEY? Since WHEN does the gov want to save money??? And MARS. Yea, MUSK want to go to Mars and live on worms and mushrooms and NEVER return to earth. Whatta load of $HIT. Prepare, something is coming. THEY ARE!
@MAGICAL MAGIC MAGICIAN Government is preparing for natural earth disaster. Massive asteroid cloud coming in, sloar flares, nuke wars etc. So NASA contracted with Musk so they can act in secret to create SPACE STATIONS to live in while we all roast in radiation caused by THEM. Those flimsy ships in NO WAY are going to mars. They are going to orbit the earth while PISSING ON OUR FLAMING BODIES and living it up with HOOKERS and drugs. Don’t forget, their commute to earth is only 10 minutes. THATS why they self landing ships. Refuel for food and new HOOKERS. Why ELSE? To save MONEY? Since WHEN does the gov want to save money??? And MARS. Yea, MUSK want to go to Mars and live on worms and mushrooms and NEVER return to earth. Whatta load of $HIT. Prepare, something is coming. THEY ARE!
@fladave99 Mills wow chill off the drugs please, it’s bad for you
https://youtu.be/fr3qewOZTjA !
Всем привет, я сделал ролик про бой в Сталинграде если есть желание оцените очень нужно мнение адекватных людей https://youtu.be/ayQkAsc0PNc Подписываться, не нужно!
We just witnessed history being made.
Amazing.
@White Emerald I know what you mean 👍
@Mohamed Orayith “Could someone explain what the history being made is !”
I’ll try but considering the tone of you question I doubt you’ll understand.
SpaceX is prototyping a massive rocket more powerful than Saturn V and both booster and upper stages will be recovered under propulsion and for relatively quick turn-around. Its Raptor engines are also the only full-flow staged combustion rocket engines ever used for flight.
What else? Starship will be able to refuel in LEO from a second Super heavy booster. SpaceX also purchased and is refitting two deep sea oil rigs for launch and recover with plans for many more in the future.
How long has SapceX been working on this? Hint: A fraction of the time NASA has been working on a super heavy lift vehicle that’s not reusable and right now is in deep trouble.
If this does pan out this will be looked back on as historic indeed. Based on what SpaceX has already accomplished I give it a pretty good chance for success.
@Irene smith He doesn’t have the money. His company only has the money so long as the government and private investors stay interested. Now I hope they solve the problems with these VTOL rockets, but if results aren’t produced over the next couple of years or decade, their investments might be pulled.
Yup another puppet show.
@TheGamingBrit Just because it’s stupidly over complex and doesn’t do the job (it exploded after all) that tech decades old managed to do doesn’t make this amazing or an achievement.
It looks like CGI, so incredible it’s hard to believe it’s real.
@Emiliano Rodriguez wth is wrong with you, just enjoy the show
@Zaccaria Jarraf how do you know? This test was real no matter about faked moon landings or not.
@kevin miele it’s real.
@Joshua Taylor are you crazy?
@Emiliano Rodriguez China also destroys the world with a virus
Incredible. Congrats to everyone working on this!
https://youtu.be/0Xh1XmMhL78
https://youtu.be/0Xh1XmMhL78
Now, can we have some real manned mission on this SN project now?
Привет всем! , если есть свободных пять минут уделите их, пожалуйста, просмотру моих видео про военную технику ,https://youtu.be/USW_TZbhGWQ очень важно знать мнение адекватных людей,
подписываться ненужно!
Can we have a different camera angle to get a sense of the speed
You can google “An infographic of a simulation of a suborbital flight of Starship” and there is a reddit post with detailed picture (infographic). Its just simulation, but you can get some sense of speed for sure. I believe I have seen flight profile analyses of SN8 and SN9 real flights but I cant remember where / cant find it now.
I wish they went to the onboard camera towards the end of the descent like they did with SN8. It gives a good sense of how close the ground is approaching.
Everyday Astronaut, LabPadre, Nasaspaceflight all had their own independent streams. There’s a dozen camera angles already available.
i love how alll space x rockets look like a five year old drew them but they still work
@Pugnastic 😆🤣😂 you just made my day! Godspeed fellow human
Looks like a giant metal dil*o
@David Olmedo yes!
It’s a prototype
i think youre overestimating 5 year olds lol.
I can’t get over the fact, that they are acting like this isn’t even a big deal. Like just casually upload it uncut with only a timer… You guy are legends! What a time to be alive!
Ladies and gentlemen please prepare your self for landing
@Farjam Movahedi they spent 1.7 tn on a fighter jet – F35 – they’re not going to use.
@Waseem Khan ROFL
That gives you an idea of how money the military squander. Biggest military budget in the world by a mile. Completely unnecessary, but plenty of Americans seem to support it.
To build a space station on the moon will cost less than 50bn and will advance science and humanity. We hope.
I haven’t forgotten the hungry, the sick, the destitute. I want those issues to be resolved so that we can all explore space, inner and outer.
@DON HUANG never mind the actual huge amount of cash flow their raking in by launching satellites in massive quantities on reusable rockets… Never mind that fact… Also don’t mind the fact that SpaceX is one of the more valuable American companies at the moment.
I yelled “no way!” when that thing turned upright during it’s landing
😉
https://youtu.be/WVXfk79xTec
……..
it’s called cgi
and then exploded…
@S M ?
@WhatSupp what a weird take, like everyone’s just capable of keeping a secret of this magnitude for literally no reason? It’s not even a public company, they only thing they gain from these tests is data.
It looks like a “Thunderbirds” ship … amazing landing 👏👏👏
Was thinking the same thing, it just needs a lick of green paint xD
“The ultimate bottle flip challenge”
It didn’t even flip
@DanDeMan No way…..
@DanDeMan Really?.. how could we have missed that. 🤦🏾♂️
The Ultimate superman filming challenge..
“Where’s the kaboom, there was supposed to be an earth shattering kaboom!?!”
The Kaboom part happened 8 minutes later.
https://youtu.be/w82CqjaDKmA
Starships were meant to fly.
HANDS UP AND TOUCH THE SKYYYYY
@Staxion no no stop.
@Craig Baines can’t stop cause we’re so highhhh
“Elon does rockets, he’s very good at rockets.” – Donald Trump
Well at least one correct thing he said
@retag hes said a lot more correct things than Joe Biden
@Blue Bandit over his whole career? Unlikely. In his presidency? Maybe. He also had four years to do so
Let’s keep the man irrelevant.
I also heard him call somebody else a rocket man too, he hasn’t got a clue.
Вместо космодрома бетонная площадка. А что, так можно было?))
У меня те же вопросы, нет канала отвода газов, нет залива горячих газов водой…? Нет крупных надписей USA на корпусе ракеты/макета? Вокруг какие то цистерны, строения!?
SpaceX: “this is to test the flaps”
SpaceX: never mentions the flaps again 🤫
SpaceX: Did you land?
SN10: Yes.
SpaceX: What did it cost?
SN10: Everything.
SpaceX: Did you blow up on the pad shortly after this video was cut?
SN10: Yes.
Hallelujah!
Who has two thumbs and loves all of us? Jesus.
Can you talk to RNGesus? He keeps fucking me over.
@I_amPeter
It’s a joke, stupid.
Howdy
Jesus.
Life will be multi-planetary very soon!
@Oregon Crow dude, you are wasting air.
Try breading in water! Piece of shit.
Very soon in the galactic time frame.
Like our sun will burn our soon. Relative to the beginning of the universe…
*copyright Disney Corporation/NASA, 1968
@Dell Bank yes yes yes.
@Vaylinne ahaha, the Mormons and Muslims will have their own planet someday, how’s that shatter your idealist worldview, dummy?
Even the trump cult will probably get one.
Just amazing!
Truly amazing. This man Elon Musk is what capitalism is all about. The building, Exploring, is not a brand like most American corporations that outsource their production. This man from South Africa, makes the USA look great. If only the hedge funds understood, it is not about extracting it is about developing new ideas and manufacturing in the USA.