Image Source | spacex.com/updates | Starship SN11 High-Altitude flight test
SpaceX
planned to test-launch its latest Starship prototype
SN15 on Friday. But it canceled due to poor weather
conditions and including lightning. It stayed back to the ground for some time.
Typically it launches from South Texas.
For SpaceX’s its
latest Starship prototype SN15 received permissions from the US Federal Aviation
Administration. As expected to attempt it on Friday afternoon from South Texas.
Starship
SN15 is the fifth prototype to attempt this upward flight. Before its four Starship
prototype SN8 to SN11 are failed until the very end, each blew up in a show of
fire. SN10 exploded on the landing pad about eight minutes later. SN11 launched
on March 30, it reached its maximum altitude as planned, then exploded on upon
landing.
STARLINK MISSION
This is the beauty of SpaceX’s Starlink Mission. On Wednesday evening, April 28, SpaceX’s
Falcon 9 rocket launched a set of 60 Starlink internet satellites into a lower
orbit. The Falcon 9 rocket launched it from Space Launch Complex 40 at
Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 11:44 p.m. EDT. It’s a marking
of the company’s 10th launch of the year.
0 Comments