Elon Musk has revealed SpaceX’s goal timeline for the following Starship launch, which would be the tenth in program historical past.
Musk says SpaceX is aiming for a timeline of roughly three weeks from now, which might come about ten weeks after the earlier launch.
Coincidentally, it will carry the 2 launches 69 days aside, and if you understand something about Elon Musk, that might be a really perfect timeline between two launches.
🚨 Simply needed you to know, Starship 10’s projected check flight date, in line with Grok, is August 4.
Starship’s ninth check flight occurred on Might 27.
August 4 is 69 days after Might 27.
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— TESLARATI (@Teslarati) July 16, 2025
SpaceX is coming off a check flight wherein it misplaced each the Tremendous Heavy Booster and the Higher Stage within the earlier launch. The Tremendous Heavy Booster was misplaced six minutes and sixteen seconds into the flight, whereas SpaceX misplaced communication with the Ship at 46 minutes and 48 seconds.
Musk is aiming for the tenth check flight to happen in early August, he revealed on X:
Launching once more in ~3 weeks
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 14, 2025
This shall be SpaceX’s fourth check flight of the Starship program in 2025, with every of the earlier three flights bringing various outcomes.
IFT-7 in January introduced SpaceX its second profitable catch of the Tremendous Heavy Booster within the chopstick arms of the launch tower. The ship was misplaced after exploding throughout its ascent over the Turks and Caicos Islands.
IFT-8 was on March 6, and SpaceX caught the booster as soon as once more, however the Higher Stage was as soon as once more misplaced.
The latest flight, IFT-9, occurred on Might 27 and featured the primary reused Tremendous Heavy Booster. Nonetheless, each the Booster and Higher Stage had been misplaced.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) hit SpaceX with a mishap investigation for Flight 9 on Might 30.
