Starship SN8 | 12.5 km Flight
Częściowe niepowodzenie
9 grudnia 2020, 23:45 UTC
Przyczyna niepowodzenia
Test completed set out objectives, but the vehicle failed to land successfully due to low pressure in the propellant header tanks cutting out the engines.
Pojazd
Orbita
Lot suborbitalny
Typ misji
Lot testowy
Program
SpaceX Starship
The SpaceX Starship is a fully reusable super heavy-lift launch vehicle under development by SpaceX since 2012, as a self-funded private spaceflight project. The second stage of the Starship — is designed as a long-duration cargo and passenger-carrying spacecraft. It is expected to be initially used without any booster stage at all, as part of an extensive development program to prove out launch-and-landing and iterate on a variety of design details, particularly with respect to the vehicle's atmospheric reentry.
Lądowanie
RTLS - SpaceX Starship Landing Pad (Nie)
SN8 was destroyed when attempting to land back near its launch site after its first flight.
0.15 km downrange
Opis misji
Prototyp SN8 Starship został zniszczony podczas próby lądowania po pierwszym locie na wysokość około 12,5 km. Lot zademonstrował manewr brzuszny i sekwencję lądowania.