Posted: Sat, Aug 30, 2025, 10:26 AM ET (1426 GMT)
SpaceX’s Starship vehicle performed a largely successful test flight Tuesday after a string of failures. The Starship/Super Heavy vehicle lifted off from Starbase, Texas, at 7:30 pm EDT (2330 GMT) on the Flight 10 mission. The vehicle avoided the problems that caused the three previous launches to fail. Starship was able to deploy eight mass simulators of next-generation Starlink satellites during the suborbital flight and perform an in-space relight of a Raptor engine. The vehicle survived reentry and made a pinpoint “soft” splashdown in the Indian Ocean. SpaceX said after the flight that the launch achieved all its major goals.

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