SpaceX Starship 10th Test Flight Liftoff: Super Heavy Engine view | Starbase Texas
Super Heavy is the first stage, or booster, of the Starship launch system. Powered by 33 Raptor engines using sub-cooled liquid methane (CH4) and liquid oxygen (LOX), Super Heavy is fully reusable and it re-enters Earth's atmosphere to land back at the launch site. Watch the SpaceX Starship on a Super Heavy booster successfully lift off from Starbase Texas at 6:30pm Central Time (CT) on Tuesday, August 26, 2025 for the Tenth Test Flight.
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After about 10 minutes, Starship’s Super Heavy Booster stage softly landed in the Gulf of Mexico as had been planned. Next, Starship performed an orbital payload demonstration test with eight Starlink simulators being deployed. The Starship spacecraft then continued on a suborbital flight before a controlled splashdown in the Indian Ocean at the intended landing site, where a Starlink-equipped camera buoy captured the Starship's arrival in real-time. Of course, SpaceX purposefully stressed the Starship during reentry to better understand how the spacecraft responds to extreme conditions. The above are significant improvements in comparison with the last few test flights.
SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy rocket—collectively referred to as Starship—represent a fully reusable transportation system designed to carry crew and cargo to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars and beyond. Starship is currently the "world’s most powerful launch vehicle ever developed", capable of carrying up to 150 metric tonnes fully reusable and 250 metric tonnes expendable.
Key Starship Parameters:
Height: 123m/403ft
Diameter: 9m/29.5ft
Payload to LEO: 100–150t (fully reusable)
Diameter: 9m/29.5ft
Payload to LEO: 100–150t (fully reusable)
"Starship is essential to both SpaceX’s plans to deploy its next-generation Starship system as well as for NASA, which will use a lunar lander version of Starship for landing astronauts on the Moon during the Artemis III mission through the Human Landing System (HLS) program."
Learn more about Starship:
Download the Free Starship User Guide (PDF):
Credit: Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX)
Duration: 32 seconds
Capture Date: Aug. 26, 2025
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