SpaceX scrubbed Starship’s tenth check fligh...

SpaceX’s large Starship rocket was scheduled to elevate off from the corporate’s Texas launch website this night for its tenth flight. After scrubbing the launch initially deliberate for Sunday, August 24, issues have been apparently again on monitor for Monday, August 25. The launch window opened at 7:30PM ET (6:30PM CT) and was even livestreamed on the SpaceX web site and on X, with a webcast beginning half-hour earlier than the supposed launch. Nonetheless, SpaceX in the end stood down from the check flight attributable to climate circumstances at 8:02PM. The corporate continues to be figuring out the subsequent launch alternative.

Yesterday, the climate appeared iffy for launch, as properly; SpaceX mentioned on Saturday that circumstances have been trying solely 45 % favorable. In the end the Sunday (after which the Monday) launch was cancelled “to permit time to troubleshoot a problem with floor techniques,” in accordance with a SpaceX submit on X.

Flight 10 follows a sequence of failures this yr throughout SpaceX’s seventh, eighth and ninth check flights. And in June, a Starship vehicle 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 really be returning to the launch website this time, although. The check is anticipated to final just a little over an hour, and finish with a splashdown within the Indian Ocean.

Replace, August 25, 2025, 11:30AM ET: This story was up to date to notice that Sunday’s launch was scrubbed and that SpaceX will attempt once more tonight.

Replace August 25, 2025 8:47AM ET: This story was up to date to notice that the August 25 launch was scrubbed attributable to climate circumstances.