SpaceX’s Epic Weekend: Starship Launch Countdown, Dragon Boosts ISS, Starlink Smashes Records
Starship Flight 10, a 400-foot-tall Starship/Super Heavy stack, is scheduled to liftoff Aug. 24 at 7:30 p.m. EDT from SpaceX’s Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, for its 10th flight test, with a Super Heavy booster equipped with 33 Raptor engines. After liftoff, the Super Heavy booster will detach and perform a controlled splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico instead of landing on catch arms, testing a new water-landing engine configuration. The Starship upper stage will ignite its own engines to reach space and attempt its first-ever payload deployment, releasing a batch of dummy Starlink satellites. SpaceX plans to reignite one