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LIVE: SpaceX Hops Starship SN6 to 150 Meters

SpaceX is attempting to hop Starship SN6 to an altitude of 150 meters. Starship SN6 is outfitted with Raptor SN29 for the test flight. Updates: https://forum...

SN6 150m Hop

Overview

Destination: Suborbital
Mission: Test Flight

Suborbital Suborbital Pad A SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
SN6 - SpaceX Starship Landing Pad

The Starship SN6 prototype sucessfully performed a 150m hop similar to the one successfully performed by its predecessor SN5.

Starship Prototype

Family:
Configuration: Prototype

Prototype of SpaceX's Starship, a fully reusable second stage and space vehicle.

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Specifications
  • Stages
    1
  • Length
    50.0 m
  • Diameter
    9.0 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    9.0 m
  • Launch Mass
    45.0 T
  • Thrust
Family
  • Name
    Starship Prototype
  • Family
  • Variant
    Prototype
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Starship Prototype
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

Booster Info


SN6

Status: Scrapped


Type: Core
Flight Proven: No
First Flight: September 3, 2020
Last Flight: September 3, 2020
Flights: 1
Landings Attempted: 1
Landings Successful: 1

Landing Information

SN6 successfully landed at the Starship Landing Pad in Boca Chica, Texas after its first hop.

Result: Successful Return to Launch Site landing at SpaceX Starship Landing Pad.

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CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 445 Failures: 13 Pending: 109

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Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.

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