US EditionDid SpaceX's Latest Rocket Blow up? What to Know About Starship Flight 10
SpaceX's 10th Starship test flight demonstrated engine relights and soft landing, advancing development toward larger variants and Mars missions planned for 2026, with monthly launches expected.
- On Tuesday , SpaceX's 10th Starship test flight performed very well, featuring an engine relight and soft landing demonstration to prove relight capability.
- SpaceX is iterating Starship rapidly, explaining the program aims to enable human settlement on Mars with Starship V3 moving through production and testing by end of year and heavy flight activity next year.
- The current Starship Version 2 measures 397 feet tall and uses 39 Raptor engines, while SpaceX outlined a larger 'Future Starship' variant at 466 feet.
- SpaceX says it will fly one more Version 2 Starship and booster mission before transitioning, and expects a monthly-ish launch cadence for remainder of 2025 with Flight 11 targeted for late September or October.
- Starship's architecture depends on tanker Starships delivering liquid oxygen and methane to an orbital propellant depot, and Musk said, `No one has ever demonstrated propellant transfer in orbit, to the best of my knowledge`.
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SpaceX launch: Watch huge Starship rocket's test flight
Starship, the flagship spacecraft of Elon Musk's SpaceX, had a successful 10th test flight. The huge rocket has suffered several failures in the past, but it's been earmarked for future missions to the moon and Mars.
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