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

SpaceX’s large Starship rocket is scheduled to raise 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 at all times, the flight take a look at will probably be livestreamed on the SpaceX web site and on X, with a webcast beginning half-hour earlier than launch.

Yesterday, the climate appeared iffy for launch; SpaceX mentioned on Saturday that situations had been wanting solely 45 % favorable. Finally the Sunday launch was cancelled “to permit time to troubleshoot a problem with floor methods,” based on a SpaceX put up on X.

Flight 10 follows a collection of failures this yr 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 based on 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 truly 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.