Successful Starship SN10 launch, belly flop, AND LANDING!!!!

Starship SN10 in horizontal belly-flop descent against a hazy sky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODY6JWzS8WU

SN10’s flight profile stacked ascent, a controlled horizontal “belly flop” on aerodynamic flaps, then a flip-and-burn to landing attitude.

That skydiver-like descent is how Starship is meant to shed energy before lighting engines for a vertical touchdown — and SN10 was the first to finish the sequence upright.

Thursday March 4th 2021