Starship | SN10 | High-Altitude Flight Test

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On Wednesday, March 3, Starship serial number (SN10) successfully completed SpaceX’s third high-altitude flight test of a Starship prototype from our site in Cameron County, Texas.

Similar to the high-altitude flight tests of Starship SN8 and SN9, SN10 was powered through ascent by three Raptor engines, each shutting down in sequence prior to the vehicle reaching apogee – approximately 10 km in altitude. SN10 performed 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 descended under active aerodynamic control, accomplished by independent movement of two forward and two aft flaps on the vehicle. All four flaps were actuated by an onboard flight computer to control Starship’s attitude during flight and enabled a precise landing at the intended location. SN10’s Raptor engines reignited as the vehicle performed the landing flip maneuver immediately before successfully touching down on the landing pad!

As if the flight test was not exciting enough, SN10 experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly shortly after landing. These test flights are all about improving our understanding and development of 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.
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It looks like CGI, so incredible it’s hard to believe it’s real.

ElectricFuture
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We just witnessed history being made.
Amazing.

VIBES_HUB
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11:42 is one of the most spectacular camera angles I've seen in 50+ years of watching space shots.

davidc
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I can't believe this is 3 years ago, when it was landed successful for the first time, I'm literally shaking in excitement that time during live.

Artisthic
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SpaceX: Have you landed?

SN10: Yes.

SpaceX: What did it cost?

SN10: Everything.

(btw just to be clear It (SN10) sadly blew up right after the stream ended but who cares anyway, we got everything we could possibly ask for. Successful landing plus an Epic Explosion so I ain’t complaining lol. Congrats SpaceX, RIP SN10.)

hesabhesab
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Feels like I‘m watching a real-life Sci-Fi movie 🍿
The explosion is just part of the blooper reel at the end.

TheRacingMonkey
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That was one of the coolest things I ever watched, looks like a scene right out of a movie . Congrats to the entire space X team, onto SN11 !

BSchwiz
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It's amazing the level of technical achievement humans are capable of.

darthcarl
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Everyone: SN10, Do you want to land, or explode?

SN10: Yes

aryangupta
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Incredible. Congrats to everyone working on this!

redkb
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SN 10: *lands successfully* “My work here is done, I changed the world... goodbye”
**explodes**

urlocalperson
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Never gets old; so impressive it's unbelievable.

HenryTheOunce
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"Great we can get the engines, intact, to analyse this time!"

SN10: *trollface

kal
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It is nice to hear John Insprucker commentating on the early StarShip flights - just like when he did it for Falcon 1. He's everyone's favorite space dad.

Cain-x
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The camera angle at 11:45 is the coolest shit I've ever seen.

tyrusmfrechs
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NASA: “reusable rockets will never be a thing”

Elon: “hold my battery”

MrFWStoner
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Every time this thing drops out of the sky horizontally my brain visualizes three Kerbals at the controls all screaming in terror but with big smiles.

HughMungoose
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Can we just thank the tons of people that made this happen? These people are pushing us to the future!! Lets go spaceX!!!!

doovergod
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Can’t wait till we unlock that Mars expansion pack dlc

PsPuNkS
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I'll never tire of re-watching these.

SonOfSofaman