Starship’s 10th flight test is expected in August according to Elon Musk. View some stunning photos…
SpaceX hits Starship upper state for the Flight 10 (Image credit: SpaceX via X)
SPACEX'S STARSHIP: FLIGHT 10
SpaceX moved the Starship into the Starbase for some tests to be conducted ahead of Starship’s 10th flight, to stack the Starship upper stage on the existing Starbase launch pad, and you can see the stack images below.
Starship’s 10th flight test is expected to take place next month in August, at the company’s Starbase site in South Texas.
Credit: SpaceX
SpaceX announced this milestone on Monday evening (July 29) by posting on X and also shared four photos, which you can see below.
Starship moved to the launch site at Starbase for preflight testing pic.twitter.com/ENkPgs3Aqx
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) July 29, 2025
SpaceX has not yet announced a target date for Flight 10, but it is expected to occur soon. SpaceX company’s founder and CEO, Elon Musk, said that the launch of the Starship will happen within three weeks (July 14). And updated this on Monday (July 28), and also predicted that next month, Starship flight 10 tests will be conducted.
Starship launches again next month pic.twitter.com/cPKhIngX6N
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 28, 2025
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The Starbase launch tower uses its “chopstick” to carry the starship upper stage (Image credit: SpaceX via X)
Everyone’s eyes are on the ship, and they are waiting for Flight 10. For now, some problems were identified at the upper stage in the flights to be recognized after Flight 9, by which SpaceX lost Flight 7 and Flight 8.
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(Image credit: SpaceX via X)
The test flights, which were conducted in January, March, and May respectively, we are sad about that as we are seeing SpaceX doing a lot for its mission, which will be conducted for interplanetary and will be done to make humans a multi-planetary species.
(Image credit: SpaceX via X)
On the other hand, if you talk about the super heavy booster, it was successfully caught in flight 7 and flight 8. There was a major launch in the starbase from where the starship and super-heavy boost were launched; that moment was historic and remained.
Tabish Virk
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