SpaceX’s huge Starship rocket is scheduled to carry 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 all the time, the flight check will likely be livestreamed on the SpaceX 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 mentioned on Saturday that situations had been trying solely 45 p.c favorable. Based on House.com, the corporate has backup alternatives on August 25 and 26.
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 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 centered 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 a bit over an hour, and finish with a splashdown within the Indian Ocean.
