SpaceX Starship Landing

This cluster centers on the SpaceX Starship prototype's high-altitude test flight, particularly its dramatic belly-flop maneuver, flip, and ultimately unsuccessful landing attempt, with discussions on footage, telemetry loss, and landing techniques.

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carlchenet Nov 6, 2014 View on HN

the last video seems promising, except they skipped the landing part :)

baq Feb 12, 2023 View on HN

Hard landing? Soft landing? No landing at all more like!

JshWright Apr 11, 2019 View on HN

Unfortunately it looks like the landing was unsuccessful.

gnatolf Jun 17, 2025 View on HN

Which inexplicably isn't know for soft landings

AliCollins Jun 15, 2016 View on HN

Did the "experimental landing" work this time?

stinos Nov 12, 2014 View on HN

any link to footage of the actual landing?

abhi3 Sep 6, 2019 View on HN

No telemetry data since about 10 minutes starting just as it was about to land. Looks like it didn't make it.

airstrike Dec 10, 2020 View on HN

A better article: https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/12/starship-rises-high-...

Narishma Apr 16, 2015 View on HN

Landing on another planet with the rocket's first stage?

marcodiego Mar 5, 2023 View on HN

Suggestion of improvement: landing should only be successful if lateral velocity is inside a limit.