Spacex Will Attempt Starship's 11th Flight Test On Monday

SpaceX is gearing up for nan 11th formation trial of its Starship megarocket, which will motorboat from its Starbase successful Texas arsenic early arsenic Monday. The motorboat model opens connected October 13 astatine 7:15PM ET. You'll beryllium capable to watch unrecorded starting 30 minutes earlier liftoff connected nan SpaceX website and connected X. 

Starship's latest flight follows a successful trial astatine nan extremity of August, during which it deployed a payload — 8 dummy Starlink satellites — successful abstraction for nan first clip pursuing a grounded attempt earlier successful nan year. The institution is aiming to transportation retired different payload objection for formation 11, again utilizing 8 Starlink simulators. For this flight, SpaceX is utilizing a antecedently flown Super Heavy booster, pinch 24 of its 33 Raptor engines being flight-proven. The goals this clip astir see "flight experiments gathering information for nan adjacent procreation Super Heavy booster, stress-testing Starship’s heatshield, and demonstrating maneuvers that will mimic nan precocious stage’s last attack for a early return to motorboat site."

SpaceX won't effort to catch Super Heavy successful its "chopsticks" backmost astatine nan motorboat tract this time. The booster is alternatively expected to extremity up successful nan Gulf of Mexico, while Starship will scatter down successful nan Indian Ocean.