Watch Live while SpaceX tries to break the Starship Starship Defeat Sequence

After consecutive scrubs, SpaceX aims to launch its Starship rocket on Tuesday and in the hope finally to break a sequence of failed test flights.

The SpaceX spacecraft is planned for takeoff during a launch window which opens at 7:30 p.m. HE on Tuesday, August 26. The rocket was initially to fly last Sunday, but the launch was delayed twice, which made the anticipation more anticipation for the chances of starship to redeem itself and achieve its mission objectives after three less ideal flights this year.

Look at the tenth starship flight test →

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The launch will be broadcast live on the SpaceX website, as well as on the company’s account on X (available above). You can also connect through the direct third-party flows below.

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The launch of Sunday was canceled a few minutes before its expected takeoff “to allow time to solve a problem with land systems,” the company said on X. SpaceX also tried to launch the spaceship on Monday, but the test flight of its rocket was delayed due to the unfavorable weather.

On a little sequence of defeats

There are a lot to come to the next flight of Starship when the company takes place to prove that its Megarotre can pass a mission in March in 2026. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) granted SpaceX the green light for the next starship flight after having ended the investigation into flight 9, which took place on May 27 and ended with the vehicle that ended during the retention. For the launch of Tuesday, SpaceX integrated the equipment and operational changes in its rocket to avoid other misadventures.

After an impressive demonstration of the reusability of starship last year, the rocket had trouble achieving its mission objectives, undergoing a series of failed flights that started in January.

The seventh flight of the rocket ended with the upper stadium of starship exploding about eight and a half after the launch. The Upper Stade of Starship concluded a similar spell during its eighth test flight in March, when six of its nine Raptor engines died during the Ascension burn. For its latest flight, SpaceX traced the anomaly to damage a composite survived pressure ship, which stores nitrogen in the starship payload bay. In order to solve the problem before Tuesday’s launch, the rocket COPV will operate at reduced pressure.

The next flight will also try mission objectives similar to the previous ones, namely the attempt to deploy 10 Starlink simulators, each of size and weights similar to the new generation of the company. Rather than staying in orbit, these star ties are designed to follow a suborbital trajectory and should burn during reintegration.

Mechazilla is not necessary

Unfortunately, SpaceX will not try to catch the Super Booster from Starship at the launch mount. Instead, the booster will head on a trajectory towards an offshore landing point in the Gulf of Mexico to test his landing burn.

During the descent, one of the three engines of the booster will stop to test the capacity of a rescue engine to take over. The booster will then use two central engines for the final landing burn, hovering briefly above the ocean before falling into the Gulf of Mexico.

The company also withdrew several tiles from the thermal shield from the upper stadium to test the vulnerable areas during its return. The tiles were removed from hot spots that were observed during the sixth starship flight test.

Although SpaceX will not try to stick the landing this time, the company at least hopes that its rocket will not be blown up during the coming launch.