{"id":785306,"date":"2026-09-28T13:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T13:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/785306\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T13:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T13:34:10","slug":"watch-live-spacexs-starship-rocket-begins-orbiting-earth-for-first-time-after-texas-lift-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/785306\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch live: SpaceX’s Starship rocket begins orbiting Earth for first time after Texas lift-off"},"content":{"rendered":"

SpaceX could enter new phase in Starship’s development, but also face new riskspublished at 12:54 BST<\/p>\n

12:54 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Georgina Rannard
Climate and Science reporter<\/p>\n

If all goes to plan, Starship 14 will go orbital today for the first time, looping around Earth as many as six times. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s a significant test of SpaceX as the company tries to move Starship out of its testing phase into full, reliable operation.<\/p>\n

SpaceX has proven it can build the world\u2019s largest and most powerful rocket to date – the rocket today will stand at more than 100 metres. <\/p>\n

But it needs to show that it can get the capsule beyond Earth\u2019s sub-orbit. Since launching for the first time three years ago, nearly half of Starship\u2019s 13 missions have ended in unintended explosions. <\/p>\n

SpaceX says its motto is to push capacities to the extreme and that it is content to fail along the way – but the clock is ticking for the company to prove to US space agency Nasa that it has reliable space vehicles and systems. <\/p>\n

Starship has a multi-billion dollar contract with Nasa to carry astronauts to the Moon as part of America\u2019s Artemis programme. <\/p>\n

Today could mark a new phase in the development of SpaceX\u2019s rocket, but also introduce new risks as it will be harder to quickly pull the capsule back to Earth if something goes wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SpaceX could enter new phase in Starship’s development, but also face new riskspublished at 12:54 BST 12:54 BST…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[59,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-785306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-gb","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785306","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=785306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}