Spacex Is About To Launch Starship For Its 10th Test Flight

SpaceX's monolithic Starship rocket is scheduled to assistance disconnected from nan company's Texas motorboat tract arsenic soon arsenic this evening for its 10th flight. The motorboat model opens astatine 7:30PM ET (6:30PM CT). As always, nan formation trial will beryllium livestreamed connected nan SpaceX website and connected X, pinch a webcast starting 30 minutes earlier launch. The upwind is looking iffy for launch, though, truthful don't beryllium amazed if this 1 gets postponed; SpaceX said connected Saturday that conditions were looking only 45 percent favorable. According to Space.com, nan institution has backup opportunities connected August 25 and 26.

Flight 10 follows a bid of failures this twelvemonth during SpaceX's seventh, eighth and ninth trial flights. And successful June, a Starship conveyance exploded connected nan crushed during preparations for a fixed occurrence trial of its six Raptor engines. If each goes according to scheme for Flight 10, Starship will deploy 8 dummy Starlink satellites and execute "several experiments focused connected enabling Starship’s precocious shape to return to nan motorboat site." It won't really beryllium returning to nan motorboat tract this time, though. The trial is expected to past a small complete an hour, and extremity pinch a splashdown successful nan Indian Ocean.