US EditionSpaceX Launches 11th Starship Test Flight in Texas
- SpaceX launched Starship Flight 11 from Starbase in southern Texas on Monday, October 13, 2025, completing the test with the Super Heavy booster splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico.
- Testing focused on data collection to advance Starship's role in NASA's Artemis and long-term Mars ambitions, gathering critical data to guide next-generation booster improvements under a more than $3 billion Artemis contract.
- At 6:23 p.m. CT the Starship stack lifted off and the Ship's Raptors ignited during hot-staging; the Super Heavy booster returned for a soft water landing roughly 10 minutes later while the Ship landed in the Indian Ocean 66 minutes after launch.
- This success advances SpaceX toward fully reusable systems and may conclude the company's 2025 launch slate, with the 12th flight debuting Starship Version 3, Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy said.
- Using Starlink, SpaceX livestreamed Flight 11 and verified the feed on its official X account; the company seeks FAA approval for routes over Florida or past Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and the Cayman Islands.
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The largest rocket system ever built in space history has largely completed an eleventh test flight according to plan.
SpaceX’s Starship nails 11th test flight
SpaceX’s Starship, the biggest and most powerful spacecraft ever launched, successfully completed its 11th test flight, bringing the company closer to sending humans to other worlds. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wants to take humans to the moon, and eventually Mars. NASA chose Starship to carry its crewed lander on its Artemis missions, which hope to put astronauts on the lunar surface in 2027. Test flights seven, eight, and nine ended in “rapid unexpec…
On the night of Monday, October 13th to Tuesday, October 14th, the Starship rocket launched for an 11th test flight. But Elon Musk's quest to conquer space from Texas hides the vampirization of a territory, its inhabitants and its ecosystem, in the name of technological progress and economic growth.
SpaceX has successfully completed the eleventh test flight of Starship, opening a new chapter in the future of human space exploration.
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