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Elon Musk's SpaceX launched its eleventh Starship rocket from Starbase, Texas connected Monday (October 13, 2025), a trial ngo to show the elephantine vehicle's reusable plan for lofting satellites and yet taking humans to the satellite and Mars. Starship, consisting of the Starship precocious signifier stacked atop its Super Heavy booster, launched astir 7:20 p.m. ET from SpaceX's Starbase facilities. After sending the Starship signifier to space, Super Heavy returned for a brushed h2o landing successful the Gulf of Mexico astir 10 minutes aft liftoff.
A ngo successful August ended a streak of investigating failures earlier this twelvemonth arsenic SpaceX pushed to stress-test features for its full reusability. SpaceX, aft Monday's flight, is hoping to commencement launching a much precocious Starship prototype equipped with features tailored for satellite and Mars missions.
"We've done everything we tin deliberation of to marque that adjacent trial flight, Flight 11, successful," SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell said astatine a league successful Paris past month. "But, you know, you ne'er cognize erstwhile you're going to get punched successful the face, truthful we'll see."
SpaceX during the ngo is aiming to deploy its 2nd clump of dummy Starlink satellites successful abstraction and spot the vessel scope the Indian Ocean aft blazing backmost done Earth's atmosphere, wherever a assortment of experimental vigor shield tiles connected Starship's exterior volition look super-hot plasma.
