{"id":73666,"date":"2025-10-14T09:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T09:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/73666\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T09:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T09:34:07","slug":"spacex-completes-11th-starship-test-flight-dw-10-14-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/73666\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX completes 11th Starship test flight \u2013 DW \u2013 10\/14\/2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elon Musk’s<\/a>\u00a0mammoth SpaceX Starship on Monday completed its 11th test flight from a Texas launch site.<\/p>\n

This was the last test flight before SpaceX starts test-launching a new version of the giant rocket equipped with more features for Moon and Mars missions.<\/p>\n

The Starship was launched<\/a> Monday from SpaceX’s south Texas launch facilities just after 6:25 pm local time (2325 UTC). The rocket included the Starship upper stage stacked atop its Super Heavy booster.<\/p>\n

After sending the Starship stage to the edge of space, Super Heavy returned for a controlled entry\u00a0in the Gulf of Mexico 7 minutes after takeoff.<\/p>\n

After its flight, the\u00a0upper stage splashed down as planned into the Indian Ocean.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Acting NASA<\/a>\u00a0Administrator Sean Duffy said on X that the mission was “another major step toward landing Americans on the Moon’s south pole.”<\/p>\n

Upgrades on the way for Starship\u00a0<\/p>\n

SpaceX, in future tests, expects to launch a more advanced Starship prototype tailored with upgrades essential for long-duration missions in space, the company said on Monday.<\/p>\n

The upgraded prototype “is really the vehicle that could take humans to the Moon and Mars,” SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell said at a conference in Paris last month.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Previous tests of the enormous Starship rocket have resulted in explosions<\/a> of the upper stage.<\/p>\n

But the streak of failed test flights ended after Starship’s last mission in August<\/a>. Monday’s flight was similar to the previous ones and deployed mock Starlink satellites.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Until August’s successful test flights, doubts surrounded Starship’s capabilities to lead Moon missions.<\/p>\n

NASA’s Artemis program aims to return humans to the Moon, and Musk’s SpaceX has a multibillion-dollar federal contract to develop a modified version of Starship as a lunar lander.<\/p>\n

The manned Artemis III mission is intended for mid-2027; however, refueling still remains one of many testing objectives required before the rocket carries humans to the moon.<\/p>\n

Mexicans criticize pollution caused by SpaceX launches<\/p>\n

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