{"id":29714,"date":"2025-08-27T13:41:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T07:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=29714"},"modified":"2025-08-27T13:41:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T07:56:22","slug":"spacex-launches-10th-flight-test-of-starship-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/spacex-launches-10th-flight-test-of-starship-rocket\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches 10th flight test of Starship rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>SpaceX launched the tenth flight test of its giant Starship rocket on Tuesday. Starship took off from the company&#8217;s Starbase facility in Texas at about 6:30 p.m. Central Time (2330 GMT), after two days of delays caused by weather and technical issues.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after liftoff, the Super Heavy booster executed a boostback burn to reverse course for a controlled descent into the Gulf of Mexico. Meanwhile, the Starship upper stage ignited its Raptor engines during hot-staging separation.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX later confirmed the booster achieved a targeted splashdown in the ocean. The Starship upper stage completed its ascent burn and entered a planned coast phase.<\/p>\n<p>About 18 minutes into the flight, SpaceX demonstrated Starship&#8217;s payload deployment capability for the first time, releasing Starlink simulator satellites that followed the same suborbital trajectory and were expected to burn up upon reentry.<\/p>\n<p>In space, Starship successfully reignited one of its Raptor engines before beginning a controlled reentry, ultimately splashing down in the Indian Ocean after just over an hour in flight.<\/p>\n<p>The flight test targets similar objectives as previous missions, including multiple reentry experiments designed to return the upper stage to the launch site for catch, according to SpaceX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX launched the tenth flight test of its giant Starship rocket on Tuesday. Starship took off from the company&#8217;s Starbase facility in Texas at about 6:30 p.m. Central Time (2330 GMT), after two days of delays caused by weather and technical issues. Shortly after liftoff, the Super Heavy booster executed a boostback burn to reverse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29714"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29716,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29714\/revisions\/29716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}