Flight 10

Name: SpaceX Flight 10 Starship rocket launch
Start: 2025-08-26T23:30:00+00:00
End: 2025-08-27T00:30:00+00:00
Location: SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA

Starship

SpaceX

Launch Status

Success

Tue • Aug 26th, 2025
11:30 PM UTC

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Weather Forecast During Launch

The forecast calls for a temperature of 92°F, overcast clouds, 100% cloud cover and a wind speed of 11mph.

Trajectory

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Rocket Launch Timeline

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T- 01 : 15 : 00	GO for Prop Load Launch director verifies go for propellant load
T- 00 : 53 : 00	Stage 2 LNG Load Start of liquid methane loading in the second stage
T- 00 : 45 : 20	Stage 2 LOX Load Start of liquid oxygen loading in the second stage
T- 00 : 41 : 37	Stage 1 LNG Load Start of liquid methane loading in the first stage
T- 00 : 35 : 52	Stage 1 LOX Load Start of liquid oxygen loading in the first stage
T- 00 : 19 : 40	Engine Chill Start of engine chilling
T- 00 : 03 : 20	Stage 2 Propellant Load Complete End of propellant loading in the second stage
T- 00 : 02 : 50	Stage 1 Propellant Load Complete End of propellant loading in the first stage
T- 00 : 00 : 30	GO for Launch Launch director verifies go for launch
T- 00 : 00 : 10	Flame Deflector Activation Activation of the flame deflector ahead of engine ignition
T- 00 : 00 : 03	Ignition Start of the engine ignition sequence
T+ 00 : 00 : 00	Excitement Guaranteed Excitement guaranteed
T+ 00 : 00 : 02	Liftoff First upwards movement of the rocket
T+ 00 : 01 : 02	Max-Q Maximum dynamic pressure
T+ 00 : 02 : 36	MECO Cut-off of the main engine
T+ 00 : 02 : 38	Stage 2 Separation Separation of the second stage from the first
T+ 00 : 02 : 48	Booster Boostback Burn Startup Start of the booster boostback burn
T+ 00 : 03 : 38	Booster Boostback Burn Shutdown End of the booster boostback burn
T+ 00 : 03 : 40	Booster Hot Stage Jettison Separation of the hot stage from the booster
T+ 00 : 06 : 20	Stage 1 Landing Burn Start of the first stage landing burn
T+ 00 : 06 : 40	Stage 1 Landing Landing of the first stage
T+ 00 : 08 : 57	SECO-1 First cut-off of the second engine
T+ 00 : 18 : 27	Payload Deployment Sequence Start Start of the payload deployment sequence
T+ 00 : 25 : 32	Payload Deployment Sequence End End of the payload deployment sequence.
T+ 00 : 37 : 48	SEB-2 2nd burn of the second engine
T+ 00 : 47 : 29	Atmospheric Entry Start of the atmospheric re-entry
T+ 01 : 03 : 15	Starship Transonic Starship passing through the transonic regime
T+ 01 : 04 : 30	Starship Subsonic Starship reaches a subsonic velocity
T+ 01 : 06 : 14	Landing Flip Flip maneuver to set the orientation for landing
T+ 01 : 06 : 20	Starship Landing Burn Start of the Starship orbital stage landing burn
T+ 01 : 06 : 30	Starship Landing Landing of the Starship orbital stage

Mission

Flight 10

Type: Test Flight
Orbit: Suborbital

10th test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle.

Location

Orbital Launch Pad 1

SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA

Orbital Launch Pad 1 has witnessed the launch of 10 rockets, including 0 orbital launch attempts. While SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA, has been the site for 19 rocket launches.

Starbase is an industrial complex for Starship rockets and the headquarters of the American aerospace manufacturer company SpaceX. Located near Brownsville, Texas, United States, it has been under construction since the late 2010s by SpaceX. Starbase is composed of a spaceport near the Gulf of Mexico, a production facility at the Boca Chica village, and a small structure test site along the Texas State Highway 4.

Rocket

SpaceX Starship

Fully reusable two-stage super heavy-lift launch vehicle.

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Landing

Core Booster 16

The Super Heavy Booster 16 has made a planned splashdown near the launch site. Booster Booster 16 last launched 08/26/2025 and has seen 1 successful launches and landings. Super Heavy booster used for the 10th Starship flight test.

Lost to the ocean after a successful soft splashdown.

Gulf of Mexico - GOM

Gulf of Mexico

Ocean - Ocean

No recovery attempt

Agency

SpaceX

Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.