{"id":119942,"date":"2025-10-13T19:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T19:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/119942\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T19:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T19:58:07","slug":"spacex-hours-away-from-scheduled-starship-test-flight-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/119942\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX hours away from scheduled Starship test flight in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oct. 13 (UPI) — SpaceX<\/a> is planning the 11th flight test on Monday of its Starship, its two-stage, heavy-lift launch vehicle designed to one day take humans back to the moon and eventually to Mars.<\/p>\n

The launch window will open at 6:15 p.m. CT at the company’s Starbase compound in Texas near the Gulf of Mexico and about 20 miles from Brownsville.\n<\/p>\n

A live-streamed broadcast<\/a> of the test flight will begin about 30 minutes prior to liftoff.<\/p>\n

In August, the Elon Musk<\/a>-owned SpaceX succeeded in its third attempt to<\/a> launch the 10th Starship test mission after SpaceX officials scrubbed two prior launches.<\/p>\n

Monday’s flight is expected to build on<\/a> the “successful demonstrations” from its 10th test in August, according to officials, but with flight experiments “gathering data for the next generation Super Heavy booster, stress-testing Starship’s heatshield, and demonstrating maneuvers that will mimic the upper stage’s final approach for a future return to launch site.”<\/p>\n

But on Monday, the company reiterated that the flight schedule was a “dynamic” process and “likely to change” as is the case with all other developmental testing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct. 13 (UPI) — SpaceX is planning the 11th flight test on Monday of its Starship, its two-stage,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[18,1647,19,17,133,451,2731,7,3070],"class_list":{"0":"post-119942","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-elon-musk","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-space","14":"tag-spacex","15":"tag-top-stories","16":"tag-u-s"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}