SpaceX Starship SN10 soars, lands for first time!

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10 has taken off it is heading to 10 kilometers on its test flight from boca chica in cameron county texas in t more two minutes we are preparing to going from three engines to two engines on in a

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, we will shut down one engine, that is intentional, plus three minutes and counting the starship approaching at five miles altitude, we are preparing to shut down the second engine, this is intentional . I'm clear, oh, very good, very good, okay, now let's switch to the header tank for the single engine, Brian, okay, I'll come back up when we get to 10 kilometers, about three seconds, going up to t plus four minutes in which we are. 10 kilometers we have traveled in hover, we are still powered by the single raptor t engine plus 4 minutes and 40 seconds, the starship has transitioned to horizontal mode and begins the descent back to the landing zone, arriving At five minutes 45 seconds we are below two kilometers.

We are preparing to turn on three Raptor engines to begin the turn sequence that will culminate with the landing on the landing platform in Boca Chica. The third

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is the charm, as the saying goes. said, we have had a successful soft landing on the landing pad culminating a beautiful test flight of Starship 10. As a reminder, the key point of today's test flight was to collect the date to control the vehicle while we re-entered and achieved To do so, we had a nominal asset. We had the maneuver to get the spacecraft horizontal when we got to 10 kilometers just in

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and then during the subsonic entry we seem to have good control of the vehicle using the front and rear flaps and as we approached the landing pad, we successfully powered up the three raptors. engines to perform that turning maneuver and then we shut down two of them and landed on the single engine as planned.

A beautiful and smooth landing of Starship on the landing pad in Boca Chica. Congratulations to the Starship team in Texas as well, they have steadily increased the test launch cadence throughout the program and we have conducted some of the most exciting test flights many of us have seen in a long time. The Texas team has several more suborbital test vehicles under construction with number 11 set to hit the pad in the very near future it's an inspiring moment for the future of human spaceflight thank you for joining us today and we hope you'll join us in the upcoming test flight of starship 11.