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As early as Wednesday, March 3, the SpaceX team will attempt a high-altitude flight test of Starship serial number 10 (SN10) – our third high-altitude suborbital flight test of a Starship prototype from SpaceX’s site in Cameron County, Texas. Similar to the high-altitude flight tests of Starship SN8 and SN9, SN10 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. SN10 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. SN10’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.
There will be a live feed of the flight test available here that will start a few minutes prior to liftoff. Given the dynamic schedule of development testing, stay tuned to our social media channels for updates as we move toward SpaceX’s third high-altitude flight test of Starship!
Scheduled for tomorrow Wednesday, March 3rd, 2021, 6:00 PM - 0:00 AM UTC
10 km Test Flight:
The SN10 Starship will perform a test flight similar to SN8 and SN9. It will launch up to an altitude of 10 km or 33,000 ft, do a belly flop maneuver followed by a controlled descent to the landing pad.
The one question I have about “1 for 1” debris removal systems is if we can ever actually get them to remove more debris than their launch creates. Somehow I don’t think we really can reduce the trash until we have refueling (and therewith reuse) capacity for such systems in orbit…
A friend we have been caring for wants her sentimental things to be safe when she is gone so I have offered to take some for her and have been going thru things Found this. So cool.
I used to have a very nice Bell & Howell Super 8 projector - sadly, the last time I moved house, 25 years ago, I found I couldn’t even give it away. It cost me a lot of money, but once video caught on, it became worthless. It ended up on the dump.
I know I’d cry, as I have quite a few similar things I feel attached to, but have now become worthless and almost impossible to still use. I have a Bauer C Royal Super 8 camera, including all the requirements for splicing as well as projecting, but no longer are film cassettes being processed anywhere, or insanely expensive.
Similarly for wonderful analogue photography with a ‘then’ very expensive Pentax camera with all the extras you can imagine. At least they still process photo film, although it’s becoming expensive. By now it’s all just sitting on a shelf doing nothing, worthless hardware from a bygone era, a shame …
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