SpaceX successfully lands 11th test starship • FRANCE 24 English

Awesome. If you can even hear us right now, congrats to the whole SpaceX team. SpaceX employees cheered as its test flight of Starship, the largest and most powerful rocket ever made, successfully returned to Earth Monday. SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk intends to use the rocket to send people to Mars. But NASA’s need for Starship is urgent as it is relying on the Mammoth spacecraft to return astronauts to the moon under its Aremis mission planned for mid 2027. Acting NASA administrator Shawn Duffy celebrated Monday’s test flight in a post on X. Another major step towards landing Americans on the moon’s south pole. However, the Aremis mission’s timeline has been set back by a series of explosions in previous Starship test flights. The pressure is on for NASA as China’s rival moon effort targeting 2030 advances. While Duffy has insisted the US will win what he called a second space race, former administrator Jim Benstein recently told a Senate panel that this is highly unlikely. Monday’s flight was the final launch of this Starship prototype, which will soon be replaced by an upgraded version.

SpaceX launched a successful 11th starship test flight on October 14, 2025, amidst doubts over the spacecraft’s ability to live up to its promise. The rocket took off from the company’s Texas facilities and successfully flew halfway around the world while releasing mock satellites before landing in the Indian Ocean.
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1 comment

  1. There's some exiting things Elon has promised in the future. In 2022 there will be two Mars cargo mission, then in 2023 a crewed moon mission and then in 2024 four crewed missions to Mars. Take that haters!

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