flown missionPartial Failure
Starship SN8 | 12.5 km Flight
SpaceXSuborbital Pad A — SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
Either the launch vehicle reached orbit but did not deliver its payload in the targeted orbit, or an exceptional event made it impossible to consider the mission a success.
mission
- Name
- 12.5 km Flight
- Type
- Test Flight
- Target orbit
- Suborbital (Sub)
The SN8 Starship prototype was destroyed when attempting to land after a first flight to an altitude of 12.5 km or 41,000 ft.
schedule
- NET (no earlier than)
- Window opens
- Window closes
- Last updated
- Fail reason
- 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.
vehicle & provider
- Rocket
- Starship Prototype
- Family
- Starship
- Variant
- Prototype
- Provider
- SpaceX
- Type
- Commercial
- Country
- USA
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launch site
- Pad
- Suborbital Pad A
- Location
- SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA
- Country
- USA
- Timezone
- America/Chicago
- Coordinates
- 25.9971, -97.1550
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