{"id":912797,"date":"2026-09-28T12:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T12:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/912797\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T12:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T12:32:10","slug":"spacex-to-launch-starship-into-orbit-around-earth-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/912797\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX to launch Starship into orbit around Earth for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s company prepares to launch Starship spacecraft into Earth&#8217;s orbit for first timepublished at 12:28 BST<\/p>\n<p>12:28 BST<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A rocket being supported by a huge metal structure in the distance, blurry. A blue sign in the foreground says Starbase with an arrow in the direction of the rocket and buildings that surround it\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/dde1bbcf-88a5-41d0-9909-c7153ea2daef.jpg.webp\"  width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Reuters<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Elon Musk&#8217;s company SpaceX is preparing to launch its Starship spacecraft into Earth&#8217;s orbit for the first time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It marks the spacecraft&#8217;s 14th flight. Previous tests were suborbital &#8211; a flight where the spacecraft reaches space, but does not travel fast enough or long enough to stay there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The rocket splits in two shortly after take off &#8211; the booster, which is the bottom half, will fall back to Earth roughly seven minutes after launch, landing in the Gulf of Mexico.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During the 10-hour flight, Starship will aim to complete roughly six orbits of Earth and deploy Starlink V3 satellites, before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean, west of Chile.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Musk hopes to revolutionise space travel by eventually making Starship the world&#8217;s first fully-reusable launch vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He also hopes the spacecraft will one day carry crew to the Moon, Mars and beyond. Today, it is uncrewed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Previous test flights haven&#8217;t all been smooth sailing with several incidents in 2025, including the rocket exploding into a giant fireball on its stand in June. Recent tests have been more successful. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The launch window opens at 07:15 local time, with a current target for lift off at 07:46 (13:46 BST), at the Starbase in Texas &#8211; you can watch live here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elon Musk&#8217;s company prepares to launch Starship spacecraft into Earth&#8217;s orbit for first timepublished at 12:28 BST 12:28&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":912798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-912797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=912797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/912798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}