SpaceX is about to launch Starship for its tenth check flight

SpaceX’s large Starship rocket is scheduled to elevate off from the corporate’s Texas launch web site 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 trying iffy for launch, although, so do not be stunned if this one will get postponed; SpaceX stated on Saturday that situations had been trying 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 12 months 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 accordance 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 web site.” It will not truly be returning to the launch web site this time, although. The check is anticipated to final just a little over an hour, and finish with a splashdown within the Indian Ocean.