Tag: Starship
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Starship Soars: Flight 11 Triumphs and V3 Sets Sights on the Stars
In the grand theater of space exploration, where rockets roar like impatient dragons and the stars wink with quiet approval, SpaceX’s Starship Flight 11 took center stage on October 13, 2025, and delivered a performance worthy of an encore. After a year that saw the Version 2 prototypes endure their share of dramatic explosions—three mid-flight…
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Flight 10, Starship, and the Art of Learning by Fire
If learning is doing, and doing spaceflight is doing really hot doing, then SpaceX is having a masterclass. The tenth integrated test flight of Starship (also called IFT-10) pushed a number of boundaries: new heat shield tiles, mock payload deployment, booster landing experiments, engine relights, etc. Many things succeeded; others revealed gaps (literally) – especially…
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SpaceX’s Starship Flight 10: MarkSetBot Buoy Makes a Splash in the Indian Ocean Landing
Starship Flight 10 and the Indian Ocean Landing Context SpaceX’s Starship rocket system achieved a major milestone on its 10th test flight in late August 2025. This fully stacked Starship (with its Super Heavy booster) lifted off from Starbase, Texas on August 26, 2025, and for the first time the Starship upper stage survived atmospheric…
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Starship Flight 10, Part II: Boom, Bust, or Breakthrough?
Well, excited? Starship’s 10th test flight is blasting off tonight from Starbase, Texas, with a launch window kicking off at 6:30 p.m. CT—weather’s a coin flip at 45% favorable, so fingers crossed for no cosmic curveballs. This one’s all about pushing reusability: the Super Heavy booster (Booster 16) will flip, boost back, attempt a two-engine…