SpaceX Starship Atmospheric Reentry: 10th Test Flight
A SpaceX Starship successfully lifted off from Starbase Texas around 6:32pm Central Time (CT) on Tuesday, August 26, 2025 and later splashdowned in the Indian Ocean in a controlled manner at the intended landing site, where a Starlink-equipped camera buoy captured the Starship's arrival in real-time. SpaceX purposefully stressed the Starship during reentry to better understand how the spacecraft responds to extreme conditions.
→ Re-watch the 10th test flight: https://t.co/UIwbeGoo2B
About ten minutes after launch, Starship’s Super Heavy Booster softly landed in the Gulf of Mexico as intended, and the Starship spacecraft continued on a suborbital flight traveling toward a splashdown in the Indian Ocean. Completion of the above objectives represents a significant improvement in comparison with the last few Starship 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: 47 seconds
Release Date: Aug. 26, 2025
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