SpaceX's SN10, an early prototype of the company's Starship Mars rocket, took off around 5:15 p.m. CT and climbed about six miles over the coastal landscape, mimicking two previous test flights SpaceX has conducted that ended in an"We've had a successful soft touch down on the landing pad," SpaceX engineer John Insprucker said during a livestream of the event. "That's capping a beautiful test flight of Starship 10.
He added that SpaceX has several other prototypes already in production and the next, SN11, will be ready to roll out for another test flight 'in the near future." Insprucker, who hosted the company's webcast of the launch on Wednesday, said that the primary goal of the test was to gather data on how the vehicle's flaps would control the Starship prototype as it plummets back to the Earth.
SpaceX intends to use Starship for a variety of purposes, including shuttling paying customers between cities at breakneck speeds, potentially aiding NASA's Moon landing efforts, and, eventually, launching cargo and human missions to Mars.
at least THEIR weather report isn’t the most accurate part of the broadcast..
Perfect! Stay on earth you filthy, greedy humans! 👌👍🏽
Successful is doing a lot of heavy lifting there!
Sort of like when my wife makes a 'successful' supper as the smoke alarm is screaming.
Oops
I love it when it makes a Kaboom! Your friendly Martian neighbour, Marvin. N.B.: Earthlings are so annoying and stupid.
Going to need a carburetor rebuild methinks.
Why isn’t is rocketship run on batteries?so much fossil fuel?
I would consider “successfully landing” to be both landing then not exploding after landing I dunno.
Successfully?
His goals aren't to succeed they are to make money ...its why he won't sell Tesla's after the subsidy ends
Pass. I'll stay on this shit planet, thank you.
That's why its a prototype and not the real thing.
So, if I understand this correctly, the real trick is ... to figure out how to get the crew and cargo off quickly?
Sorry I am missing something successfully and exploded don't mix only if ot ment to explode then yes it was successful.
A little late. This was yesterday's news
That's because 'Starships were meant to fly' not land. It got confused and exploded
'exploded minutes after successfully landing' 'successfully' 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
too bad elon musk wasn't on it
If only we’d known beforehand. There were a few people we’d have liked to have placed on board.
Whole thing was amazing AND a big step forward.
That's just the self destruct feature so they can never return.
Hoping all those who invest money in Starship give even more. If you invest in a 'Starship' that is supposed to make colonizing Mars possible I hope your investments end up like the last 10 Starships.
Let me know if your parting out.
😂😂😂 beam me up
Whoops
If people can get off the rocket quickly I'd still be okay with it...but I doubt I'd have enough time to get my carry-on luggage -- those overhead bins can be tricky.
Exploded and successful 🤔
Thank god it's all CGI
I wouldn’t want to come back to earth either 😂
ummm......not sure that meets the criteria of 'successful '