SpaceX is about to launch Starship for its tenth check flight

SpaceX’s huge Starship rocket is scheduled to elevate off from the corporate’s Texas launch website as quickly as this night for its tenth flight. The launch window opens at 7:30PM ET (6:30PM CT). As at all times, the flight check shall be livestreamed on the web site and on X, with a webcast beginning half-hour earlier than launch. The climate is wanting iffy for launch, although, so do not be shocked if this one will get postponed; SpaceX stated on Saturday that situations have been wanting solely 45 p.c favorable. In keeping with , the corporate has backup alternatives on August 25 and 26.

Flight 10 follows a sequence of failures this yr throughout SpaceX’s , and check flights. And in June, a Starship vehicle exploded on the bottom throughout preparations for a static hearth check of its six Raptor engines. If all goes in response to 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 really be returning to the launch website this time, although. The check is predicted to final slightly over an hour, and finish with a splashdown within the Indian Ocean.