After scrubbing the Flight 10 Starship launch yesterday for the 2nd time, SpaceX is aiming for a 3rd launch window today. You can read the live updates (text commentary below).
Additionally, the official and unofficial live stream videos can also be watched below.
SpaceX only provides the live webcast via X (Twitter). If you prefer to watch such videos on YouTube, we have also included 3rd-party live streams by NASASpaceFlight and Everyday Astronaut below.
You can read the details of the trajectory of the Flight 10 Starship launch to understand SpaceX’s plans with today’s test.
Starship Flight 10 Launch Live Streams (3rd attempt, Tuesday)
SpaceX Official Live Stream
Live Stream by @NASASpaceFlight / YouTube
Live Stream by Everyday Astronaut / YouTube
Live Updates (archived text commentary)
- Around T-16 minutes into the 10th Starship flight test (IFT-10)
- The weather is looking great for launch today
- No issues with the vehicle and ground systems around T-10:30 minutes
- Loading propellant into the Starship Super Heavy rocket and upper stage Starship 37
- SpaceX is building a Gigabay at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida and a Starship orbital launch mount as well
- At full load, Starship will have 11 million pounds of propellant before liftoff
- Starship is loaded with liquid Methane and Oxygen; this propellant combination is also called MethaLOX
- If the Water Deluge System does not turn off after T-10 seconds, it can result in today’s flight being called off (looks like the only factor that can result in a scrub)
- SpaceX does not expect to hold at T-40 seconds (not tracking any issues)
- 1 minute to go to launch
- No hold at T-40 seconds
- Liftoff
- Starship has reached MaxQ
- Next big event is the hot staging (the hot-staging ring will be jettisoned)
- Stage separation confirmed (at around T+3 minutes)
- The hot-staging ring has jettisoned
- Super Heavy landing burn begins
- Starship Super Heavy booster (Booster 16) has successfully made a soft splashdown landing in the Gulf of America after hovering for a few seconds
- Successfully reached the second engine cut-off (SECO) for the Starship upper stage
- Starship is now in space
- The flight termination system (FTS) is turned off on the Starship spacecraft as it coasts in space
- Starship is in a sub-orbital trajectory
- SpaceX is going to try a single-engine relight in space
- Some heat shield tiles are intentionally being removed from critical areas to test reentry burn endurance without these tiles
- Payload doors to open in a few seconds to deploy Starlink V3 dummy satellites into space
- Starship payload door opened
- SpaceX successfully deploys the first Starlink V3 simulator satellite via Starship (at around T+19 minutes)
- With V3 Starlink satellites, users and SpaceX will have access to gigabit-level broadband internet access
- SpaceX successfully deploys all eight Starlink V3 dummy satellites (payload deployment complete)
- Engine re-light is expected to happen around T+37 minutes
- A few minutes left before testing the Starship upper stage engine re-light before reentry to the Earth’s atmosphere
- SpaceX successfully re-lighted a center Raptor engine on Starship in orbit (to de-orbit the spaceship)
- Reentry to Earth’s atmosphere is expected at around T+45 minutes
- Starship spacecraft will enter the Earth’s atmosphere at 5 times the speed of sound
- Starship is headed for a splashdown landing in the Indian Ocean (near Australia)
- SpaceX has set up one buoy at the Starship landing site to capture the last moments of the ship
- The aft flaps are fully opened before landing (already partially damaged due to reentry burn)
- Starship velocity is now subsonic (below the speed of sound)
- SpaceX is going to use the three center sea-level engines to steer the Starship for a precise splashdown landing
- Starship successfully performed a belly-flop maneuver just before the landing using its three center Raptor engines
- Flight 10 Starship spacecraft (Ship 37) successfully lands in the Indian Ocean
- Starship Flight 10 was a success and completed all of its goals according to the planned trajectory and landed as intended
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