SpaceX scrubbed Starship’s tenth take a look at flight this night

SpaceX’s huge Starship rocket was scheduled to carry off from the corporate’s Texas launch website this night for its tenth flight. After scrubbing the launch initially deliberate for Sunday, August 24, issues had been apparently again on observe for Monday, August 25. The launch window opened at 7:30PM ET (6:30PM CT) and was even livestreamed on the SpaceX web site and on X, with a webcast beginning half-hour earlier than the supposed launch. Nevertheless, SpaceX finally stood down from the take a look at flight as a result of climate circumstances at 8:02PM. The corporate continues to be figuring out the subsequent launch alternative.

Yesterday, the climate appeared iffy for launch, as effectively; SpaceX stated on Saturday that circumstances had been trying solely 45 p.c favorable. In the end the Sunday (after which the Monday) launch was cancelled “to permit time to troubleshoot a problem with floor techniques,” based on a SpaceX submit on X.

Flight 10 follows a sequence of failures this 12 months throughout SpaceX’s seventh, eighth and ninth take a look at flights. And in June, a Starship vehicle exploded on the bottom throughout preparations for a static fireplace take a look at of its six Raptor engines. If all goes based on plan for Flight 10, Starship will deploy eight dummy Starlink satellites and carry out “a number of experiments centered 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 take a look at is predicted to final just a little 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 attempt once more tonight.

Replace August 25, 2025 8:47AM ET: This story was up to date to notice that the August 25 launch was scrubbed as a result of climate circumstances.