{"id":195318,"date":"2025-10-12T17:02:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T17:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/195318\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T17:02:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T17:02:12","slug":"watch-spacex-launch-its-starship-flight-11-megarocket-test-flight-on-oct-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/195318\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch SpaceX launch its Starship Flight 11 megarocket test flight on Oct. 13"},"content":{"rendered":"

Watch live! SpaceX to launch Starship on 11th test flight – YouTube
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SpaceX plans to launch Flight 11 of its Starship megarocket on Monday evening (Oct. 13), and you can watch the action live.<\/p>\n

Starship<\/a>, the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, is scheduled to lift off for the 11th time on Monday (Oct. 13), during a 75-minute window that opens at 7:15 p.m. EDT (2315 GMT).<\/p>\n

The launch will take place from SpaceX<\/a>‘s Starbase site in South Texas. You can watch it live here at Space.com courtesy of the company; coverage will begin about 30 minutes before liftoff.<\/p>\n

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SpaceX’s Starship megarocket launches on the vehicle’s 10th flight test, on Aug. 26, 2025. (Image credit: SpaceX)<\/p>\n

Starship consists of a first-stage booster called Super Heavy and an upper-stage spacecraft known as Starship, or Ship for short. Both of these elements are designed to be fully and rapidly reusable.<\/p>\n

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SpaceX believes that the vehicle’s unprecedented combination of power and reusability will allow humanity to settle Mars<\/a>, a long-held dream of company founder and CEO Elon Musk.<\/a><\/p>\n

Starship Flight 11 will look a lot like Flight 10<\/a>, if all goes according to plan. On that most recent launch, which took place on Aug. 26, Super Heavy steered itself to a splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico about 6.5 minutes after liftoff, and Ship did that same in the Indian Ocean roughly an hour later.<\/p>\n

Ship also managed to relight one of its Raptor engines in space and deploy some payloads \u2014 eight dummy versions of SpaceX’s Starlink<\/a> broadband satellites.<\/p>\n

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The Flight 11 Super Heavy booster is placed atop Starbase’s orbital launch mount by the tower’s “chopstick” arms. (Image credit: SpaceX)<\/p>\n

Those will be the main goals for Flight 11 as well. SpaceX also plans to test a new landing burn engine configuration for Super Heavy and gather data that will help pave the way for Ship to end its missions with a return to Starbase, where it will be caught by the launch tower’s “chopstick” arms.<\/p>\n

Super Heavy has already done this on three previous Starship test flights. In fact, the booster flying on Monday is a spaceflight veteran, having conducted Starship Flight 8<\/a> earlier this year.<\/p>\n

“For reentry, tiles have been removed from Starship to intentionally stress-test vulnerable areas across the vehicle,” SpaceX wrote in a Flight 11 mission description<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Several of the missing tiles are in areas where tiles are bonded to the vehicle and do not have a backup ablative layer,” the company added. “To mimic the path a ship will take on future flights returning to Starbase, the final phase of Starship\u2019s trajectory on Flight 11 includes a dynamic banking maneuver and will test subsonic guidance algorithms prior to a landing burn and splashdown in the Indian Ocean.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watch live! SpaceX to launch Starship on 11th test flight – YouTube Watch On SpaceX plans to launch…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-195318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-space","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}