SpaceX plans to launch Starship for its tenth take a look at flight this night

SpaceX’s huge Starship rocket is scheduled to elevate off from the corporate’s Texas launch web site as quickly as this night for its tenth flight. After scrubbing the launch initially deliberate for Sunday, August 24, issues are apparently again on monitor for Monday, August 25. The launch window opens at 7:30PM ET (6:30PM CT). As all the time, the flight take a look at can be livestreamed on the SpaceX web site and on X, with a webcast beginning half-hour earlier than launch.

Yesterday, the climate seemed iffy for launch; SpaceX stated on Saturday that circumstances had been trying solely 45 % favorable. In the end the Sunday launch was cancelled “to permit time to troubleshoot a problem with floor techniques,” in line with a SpaceX submit on X.

Flight 10 follows a sequence of failures this 12 months throughout SpaceX’s seventh, eighth and ninth take a look at flights. And in June, a Starship vehicle exploded on the bottom throughout preparations for a static hearth take a look at of its six Raptor engines. If all goes in line with plan for Flight 10, Starship will deploy eight dummy Starlink satellites and carry out “a number of experiments centered on enabling Starship’s higher stage to return to the launch web site.” It will not really be returning to the launch web site this time, although. The take a look at is anticipated to final just a little over an hour, and finish with a splashdown within the Indian Ocean.

Replace, August 25, 2025, 11:30AM ET: This story was up to date to notice that Sunday’s launch was scrubbed and that SpaceX will strive once more tonight.