We are just a few hours away from Starship’s 11th flight test (IFT-11). SpaceX is all geared up, and the probability of the launch happening today is imminent.
Starship Flight 11 launch and landing test is scheduled for 6:15 PM Central Time (CT) / 7:15 Eastern Time (EST) today (13th October). The weather of the City of Starbase, Texas, as of this writing is also appears favorable for launch (31 °C / wind at 5 knots / broken clouds).
SpaceX is going to officially conduct a live webcast of the Flight 11 Starship launch as it did for previous launches. This live webcast is going to be streamed via Elon Musk’s social media platform X (formerly Twitter).
We are going to provide the official webcast on the live updates page, which is going to be available around 1 hour before the launch.
To enhance the user experience, third-party YouTube live-streams by NasaSpaceFlight.com and Everyday Astronaut are also going to be available. Live text updates will also be available on our dedicated Flight 11 page, as we provided for Flight 10 and previous Starship launches.
Starbase Flight 11 Updates
Yesterday, SpaceX CEO confirmed on X that Starship’s 11th launch test is confirmed for Monday. “Starship flight tomorrow evening,” he said.
SpaceX also confirmed a few hours ago that the Flight 11 Starship is fully integrated at orbital launch mount (OLM) Pad 1 at Starbase. This suggests that the space vehicle is ready for today’s launch.
Just a few minutes ago, SpaceX made another official announcement on X, confirming that today’s Starship launch is imminent.
On track for today’s Starship flight test. The launch window is from 6:15 p.m. CT – 7:30 p.m. CT. Live coverage starts ~30 minutes before launch.
Sunrise on Starship pic.twitter.com/aIlmJaLlrA
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) October 13, 2025
Starship Flight 11 Trajectory
The trajectory and landing objectives of Flight 11 Starship upper and lower stage (Ship 38 and Booster 15-2) are same as of the Flight 10 launch test.
The Super Heavy booster is going to make a splashdown landing in the Gulf of America, and the upper stage Starship is going to land in the Indian Ocean near Australia. Flight 11 is also a suborbital launch test.
SpaceX has shared the following infographic on its Flight 11 official updates page.
The booster on this flight test previously flew on Flight 8 and will launch with 24 flight-proven Raptor engines. Its primary test objective will be demonstrating a unique landing burn engine configuration planned to be used on the next generation Super Heavy. It will attempt this while on a trajectory to an offshore landing point in the Gulf of America and will not return to the launch site for catch.
Super Heavy will ignite 13 engines at the start of the landing burn and then transition to a new configuration with five engines running for the divert phase. Previously done with three engines, the planned baseline for V3 Super Heavy will use five engines during the section of the burn responsible for fine-tuning the booster’s path, adding additional redundancy for spontaneous engine shutdowns. The booster will then transition to its three center engines for the end of the landing burn, entering a full hover while still above the ocean surface, followed by shutdown and dropping into the Gulf of America. The primary goal on the flight test is to measure the real-world vehicle dynamics as engines shut down while transitioning between the different phases.
The Starship upper stage will target multiple in-space objectives, including the deployment of eight Starlink simulators, similar in size to next-generation Starlink satellites. The Starlink simulators will be on the same suborbital trajectory as Starship and are expected to demise upon entry. A relight of a single Raptor engine while in space is also planned.
The flight test includes several experiments and operational changes focused on enabling Starship’s upper stage to return to the launch site on future flights. For reentry, tiles have been removed from Starship to intentionally stress-test vulnerable areas across the vehicle. Several of the missing tiles are in areas where tiles are bonded to the vehicle and do not have a backup ablative layer. To mimic the path a ship will take on future flights returning to Starbase, the final phase of Starship’s trajectory on Flight 11 includes a dynamic banking maneuver and will test subsonic guidance algorithms prior to a landing burn and splashdown in the Indian Ocean.
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