Starship | SN11 | High-Altitude Flight Test
As early as Tuesday, March 30, the SpaceX team will attempt a high-altitude flight test of Starship serial number 11 (SN11) – our fourth high-altitude flight test of a Starship prototype from Starbase in Texas. Similar to previous high-altitude flight tests of Starship, SN11 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. SN11 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. SN11’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 fourth high-altitude flight test of Starship!
*SN8: Boom*
*SN9:Boom*
*SN10:Land& Boom*
*SN11:Didn’t see what happened and Boom💥💥💥*
Space booms
@dot Matter and matter matter both come from energy. They create both almost every day at CERN.
@Alan bruh wtf
@Anders Larsen i think sn11 lands itself not by anyone, it lands itself with his ai, computers, sensors and all of stuff it have. I don’t think it is landed by someone
You need 25 Boom to unlock Mars
11:50 *donk*
was it a landing donk, a pressure tank ponk, or a metal/mechanical bonk after successfully landing? doesn’t sound like an explosion at least. was this from an onboard mic? if so, that would suggest no explosion, right? because you would think an explosion results in no sound transmitting back to base at all from an onboard mic
*edit: okay it blew up*
It exploded
@MaxMoreGaming but there is no video right? Only the debris falling, I guess.
lol
Donk
@Organicaofficial nobody cares about you music
“looks like we had another exciting test”
thats why I love SpaceX. They have the right attitude with their flight tests.
@Linecraftman Elon also tweeted they had engine problems but it wouldnt have affected the landing, I think this was a test to see if foggy launches would be a option in the future when Starship is fully operational like an airliner, how SpaceX intends for it
@Larry Potter *Prototyping* Havent heard of that word huh? It was still a success. Its a prototype test. Thats like when a prototype car crashes. You make no sense, they are still working on it
Attitude and a huge budget.
@Alan The poster of the original comment in this thread. As well as the person covering the launch for SpaceX….
[“”looks like we had another exciting test”
thats why I love SpaceX. They have the right attitude with their flight tests.”]
“They have the attitude with their flight tests.”
Really?
What are you talking about?? You can’t just say anything and have it magically make sense. This video is a flop and a waste of time.
Humans: Shows the explosion, please
Sn11: it’s impossible.
Humans: No, It’s necessary.
@yuriraver7 C’mon Fog
@Clark C’mon Eileen
@Transmission Control I just did.
@TraditionalAnglican it was supposed to launch yesterday but faa messed up
It is not NECESSARY for us to SEE anything. We can’t read the telemetry.
“Will it land? Will there be an RUD?”
It’s already done both. We’re out of options.
_SN11 goes _*_around_*_ the pad in the 4th dimension_
@Gravity Falls yep
@Gravity Falls just… One big “yep” to everything you said.
@Tal Alon Thx
Sn11 is both RUD and landed until observed
SN11 be like “We need to enter the singularity to get the data!” :O
I love the thought of being an old man walking through a museum and pass by pieces, maybe huge chunks from these SN test flights. Rest in pieces SN11, hope I see you soon.
🤔 An old man walking through a museum ON MARS! 🚀
Awesome way to look at it. You have a good mindset. 👍
A successful person never fails. They either win or learn. Today is a learning day for SpaceX and that’s awesome!
@Richard 1 Yeah, crappy eye ball designing. Like when they tested the worlds largest upper stage 4 times in 4 months, and prior to that when they designed Falcon 9. You’re used to NASA working at a snails pace thanks to bureaucracy, whereas this right here is untethered engineering.
@Jadan Jenkins Another Elon fanboy with no real world experience.
@Richard 1 what did you design
@Colin Southern I know
@Richard 1 “I used to design this stuff” I’m calling BS on that – for a number of reasons:
1. Someone who had would appreciate the process and wouldn’t make comments such as yours as a professional courtesy.
2. Someone who had would appreciate that there’s a LOT more sophistication in the design process than “designing things by eye” and would – again – refrain from making comments such as yours because they would know just how much they DON’T know about the inner workings of SpaceX which – incidentally – is the same “Musk-hyped” company responsible for the phenomenally successful Dragon Cargo and Dragon Crew products (probably designed by many of the same engineers who are currently working on the Starship project).
So I strongly suspect that the reality is that although neither one of us knows the first thing about Starship engineering, I’m at least smart enough to realise that. You on the other hand appear to be one of those people who find it easy to comment on anything … because you literally don’t know how much you don’t know. And if I’m wrong then perhaps you should stop wasting your time posting internet comments and go work for SpaceX where you can show them how it should be done …
SN8: Greeny, Leaky, Faulty Landing
SN9: Uncontrolled, Tilted, Too Hard and BAD RUD
SN10: Good, Bouncy, BOOM after Landing
SN11:Invisible, Destructible and BOOM (In mid air)!., 💣💥😑😑
Exciting test indeed
@Turbo Tastic Many young enthusiasts want to believe blindly in Elon words but the reality is not that simple. I am sure he will succeed anyway.
@Gravity Falls Space is hard but the ground is harder
@Alejandro Fernandez Perhaps, but I think everything will work out for Elon, since the rest generally sleep especially some kind of bezos and someone else
lol
Explain how this was exciting! It was the exact opposite of that.
If this launch had a Rocket Lab name it would be “Landing, In Some Pieces”
Some reassembly required
“Landing, In Some Pieces, and Many Places.”
Fall to pieces
May Contain Nuts
Pieces on earth…