This will be the 10th flight of Starship, during which the Starship will be fully stacked and launched.
Starship upper stage during test burn of engines. (Image Credit: SpaceX)
Starship Flight 10
SpaceX gave an update on its X account on August 15, saying that it will launch the 10th integrated test flight of Starship as soon as possible on August 24 of its super heavy Starship vehicle.
The Starship test flight will liftoff from Starbase Texas, where the company’s manufacturing and test site is located. The Starship’s launch window is expected to be 7:30 p.m. EDT (2330 GMT).
The tenth flight test of Starship is preparing to launch as soon as Sunday, August 24 → https://t.co/UIwbeGoo2B pic.twitter.com/j0YKKgAxAV
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) August 15, 2025
SpaceX announced a launch date for Friday (August 15), but before that, Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX, had already predicted Starship‘s estimated launch and announced the launch, saying a launch is expected “about three weeks later.”
Starship launches again next month pic.twitter.com/cPKhIngX6N
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 28, 2025
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Many critical tasks are underway in the spacecraft’s development, as this flight is the 10th and the fourth Starship flight in 2025. Before this, for the three Starship launches that were conducted, SpaceX had to lose the upper stages, due to which the failure of every launch would have an effect on the timeline of the Starship vehicle.
In which the timing for other lunar missions may have to be adjusted so that this Starship does not create a problem for NASA’s Artemis 3 mission, which has to land on the surface of the Moon in 2027.
Completely stacked, it includes a super-heavy booster or the upper stage of the starship; the stand is 394 feet (120 meters) tall. Flight 10 will be accompanied by the booster, Booster 16, and ship 37, both of which are variants that SpaceX is still evolving. In this launch, SpaceX has introduced many incremental upgrades.
