SpaceX Launches Starship on its Most Ambitious Test Flight Yet

SpaceX’s Starship Megarket Boca Chika has returned to the launch pad, it is ready and ready for the final aircraft examination of the year. The flight 11, Starship, version 2 will also be the final exam aircraft for this repetition scheduled to travel early on Monday evening – if everything goes into the plan.

The launch window will be open on Monday, October 13, to be opened in the evening: 15: 5 minutes, according to SpaceXThe The event will start about 30 minutes before a livestream elevator, which you can see SpaceX.com Or organization Account You can also tune in by any of the bottom third party webcusts at X.

A transitional moment for SpaceX

Last week, SpaceX Share Pictures of the Stearship Super Heavy Boostor on his pad at the Launch site Starbase in Texas’s Boca Chika Company have been set up. The top stage of the rocket, which is known as the “ship” in short, is decorated at the top of the booster before its aircraft.

Starship is the largest and most powerful rocket built so far. Overall, it is about 400 feet (122 meters) tall. However SpaceX is getting bigger: the next repetition of Starship – version 3 – will be Even larger and capable of carrying 100 tons (363 metric tons) in orbitAccording to CEO Elon Kasturi. Its first introduction is expected in the early 2026.

However, before rolling out the SpaceX version 3, this is the last test of the company’s version 2 to go smoothly. This is the latest test, flight 10, which came up from the Starbase in August, Left without any interruptionThe But that launch has followed The string of explosive failure It left the Starship of the Track.

For this test, Starship will follow a very similar flight plan for its last launch, Including just a few tweets To further stress the rocket hit shield and show such techniques, and when it returns to its launch site, it is referred to as the strategies designed to duplicate its upper layers-Sartsip, above all, fully re-usable.

Plan a similar but different flights

On the eleventh Test flight, Starship Super Heavy Booster is supposed to spread to the Gulf of Mexico, when the above stage moves up to a sub -forle arcade, then re -enters the Indian Ocean, re -enters the environment, accordingly, accordingly. SpaceXThe

The test will try to objective for the purpose of the setting of eight dummy sterling satellites and a reputter of a Raptor engine. SpaceX has again removed a number of ceramic tiles from the heat solder in the stress-test of the rocket’s thermal protection system.

In contrast to Flight 10, however, at this time Spacecraft will perform a “dynamic banking movement” in the final phase of the re -entry of the designed rocket to mimic the path that will take on future flights that return to Starbes.

According to SpaceX, the booster will show “a unique landing burn engine configuration is planned to use on super heavy next generation”. The booster will start the combustion of 13 in its 33 engines, to make its trajectory delicate in five engines, then downshift in the three centers in the final phase of the burn.

The booster selected for this launch is flight-proof, already flown to Flight 8 in March. Twenty-four flights of the booster Rapter engines are also flight-proven. This is a critical examination of SpaceX’s rapid reuse strategy to reuse the second of a super -heavy booster.

It has become a turbulent year for the Starship program. After the 2025 launch of the rocket starts to move very shaking, SpaceX is now under pressure to reach the milestone of critical development before its subsequent repetition. Monday’s launch is a one that you don’t want to miss.