SpaceX’s large Starship rocket is scheduled to raise off from the corporate’s Texas launch website 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 check will probably be livestreamed on the SpaceX web site and on X, with a webcast beginning half-hour earlier than launch.
Yesterday, the climate regarded iffy for launch; SpaceX mentioned on Saturday that situations had been trying solely 45 p.c favorable. In the end the Sunday launch was cancelled “to permit time to troubleshoot a problem with floor programs,” in line with a SpaceX publish on X.
Flight 10 follows a sequence of failures this 12 months throughout SpaceX’s seventh, eighth and ninth check flights. And in June, a Starship automobile exploded on the bottom throughout preparations for a static fireplace check of its six Raptor engines. If all goes in line with plan for Flight 10, Starship will deploy eight dummy Starlink satellites and carry out “a number of experiments targeted on enabling Starship’s higher stage to return to the launch website.” It will not truly be returning to the launch website this time, although. The check is anticipated to final slightly 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.