{"id":372013,"date":"2025-08-25T09:44:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T09:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/372013\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T09:44:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T09:44:14","slug":"spacex-is-about-to-launch-starship-for-its-10th-test-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/372013\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX is about to launch Starship for its 10th test flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">SpaceX&#8217;s massive Starship rocket is scheduled to lift off from the company&#8217;s Texas launch site as soon as this evening for its 10th flight. The launch window opens at 7:30PM ET (6:30PM CT). As always, the flight test will be livestreamed on the <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/launches\/starship-flight-10\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:SpaceX;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">SpaceX<\/a> website and on X, with a webcast starting 30 minutes before launch. The weather is looking iffy for launch, though, so don&#8217;t be surprised if this one gets postponed; SpaceX said on Saturday that conditions were looking only 45 percent favorable. According to <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:2;pos:1\" class=\"link \" href=\"http:\/\/space.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Space.com;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:2;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">Space.com<\/a>, the company has backup opportunities on August 25 and 26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">Flight 10 follows a series of failures this year during SpaceX&#8217;s <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:3;pos:1\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/science\/space\/spacexs-starship-explodes-during-ascent-in-its-seventh-test-flight-034440913.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:seventh;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:3;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seventh<\/a>, <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:4;pos:1\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/science\/space\/spacexs-starship-explodes-again-during-its-eighth-test-flight-140018375.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:eighth;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:4;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">eighth<\/a> and <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:5;pos:1\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/science\/space\/spacexs-ninth-starship-test-flight-reaches-space-but-fails-to-deploy-fake-satellites-120057474.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:ninth;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:5;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ninth<\/a> test flights. And in June, a <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:6;pos:1\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/science\/space\/spacexs-starship-explodes-on-the-ground-during-a-routine-test-130025133.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Starship vehicle exploded;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:6;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Starship vehicle exploded<\/a> on the ground during preparations for a static fire test of its six Raptor engines. If all goes according to plan for Flight 10, Starship will deploy eight dummy Starlink satellites and perform &#8220;several experiments focused on enabling Starship\u2019s upper stage to return to the launch site.&#8221; It won&#8217;t actually be returning to the launch site this time, though. The test is expected to last a little over an hour, and end with a splashdown in the Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SpaceX&#8217;s massive Starship rocket is scheduled to lift off from the company&#8217;s Texas launch site as soon as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3844],"tags":[70,413,1603,1987,130186,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-372013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-space","10":"tag-spacex","11":"tag-starship","12":"tag-texas-launch-site","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115088764009774403","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}