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Posted on 08/25/2025 4:44:10 PM PDT by Momaw Nadon
The tenth flight test of Starship is preparing to launch as soon as Monday, August 25. The launch window will open at 6:30 p.m. CT.
The primary test objectives for the booster will be focused on its landing burn and will use unique engine configurations. One of the three center engines used for the final phase of landing will be intentionally disabled to gather data on the ability for a backup engine from the middle ring to complete a landing burn. The booster will then transition to only two center engines for the end of the landing burn, entering a full hover while still above the ocean surface, followed by shutdown and drop into the Gulf of America.
The Starship upper stage will again target multiple in-space objectives, including the deployment of eight Starlink simulators, similar in size to next-generation Starlink satellites. The Starlink simulators will be on the same suborbital trajectory as Starship and are expected to demise upon entry. A relight of a single Raptor engine while in space is planned.
The flight test includes several experiments focused on enabling Starship’s upper stage to return to the launch site. A significant number of tiles have been removed from Starship to stress-test vulnerable areas across the vehicle during reentry. Multiple metallic tile options, including one with active cooling, will test alternative materials for protecting Starship during reentry. On the sides of the vehicle, functional catch fittings are installed and will test the fittings’ thermal and structural performance, along with a section of the tile line receiving a smoothed and tapered edge to address hot spots observed during reentry on Starship’s sixth flight test. Starship’s reentry profile is designed to intentionally stress the structural limits of the upper stage’s rear flaps while at the point of maximum entry dynamic pressure.
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Aaaaaand the launch is scrubbed.
Scrubbed for 8/25/2025 due to weather. Awaiting a new launch date and time.
Might as well not waste the thread.
Manned space flight is a waste of time and resources. Change my mind.
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Our long term survival depends on some of us getting off this rock. Short term thinkers may not care.
I think we will get there much faster the sooner we develop and perfect the technology...robotics, automation, and AI. We should already be sending and testing that technology to the Moon and Mars. Human habitability is very expensive, and to the extent that it undercuts those hardware developments, it is counterproductive to the long term goal.
Sounds like a plan. Soon these ships will be in moon orbit, seting up a nuclear power station on the surface.
why waste my time?
“Change my mind”
Ok, consider this:
https://youtube.com/shorts/ewnbQrEA8LE?si=NN_fw5fuqv8ws60K
Your post is a waste of time and resources. Change my mind.
Using only unmanned spacecraft will never get us off this rock in numbers to last and sustain elsewhere.
what #12 said...
It wasn’t that long ago that aircraft couldn’t take off or land at night or in bad weather some day there will be all weather launches and landings.
You won’t miss that business meeting on Luna station or Mars Marriott...
We'll have to establish a colony before Islam eventually ends up taking over the world.
I’d say that was a pretty successful flight / test!
I happened to watch here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtUMt0gsqrs
Prolly deserves it’s own thread.
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