Update Aug. 24, 7:30 p.m. EDT: SpaceX scrubbed the launch attempt due to a ground systems issue.
Original story below:
Watch live as a Super Heavy booster and Starship launch on a crucial test flight for SpaceX’s fully reusable rocket. This tenth test flight follows three consecutive failures of the Starship upper stage in-flight and an explosion on the test stand.
Liftoff of the 10th fully integrated Starship from SpaceX’s Starbase facility at Boca Chica Beach, in Texas, is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. CDT / 7:30 p.m. EDT / 2330 UTC on Sunday, Aug. 24.
Like on flight 9, the Super Heavy booster will not return for a catch by the launch tower but will instead aim for a hard splashdown off-shore to allow for more testing.
Elon Musk is developing rockets for his Mars colonization plan, to build humanity an independent, self-governing, self-sustaining backup against existential threats to civilization on Earth.
Yet, he is making the collapse of civilization more likely by installing politicians who will kill net zero, cancel and block renewable energy projects, and boost coal, oil and gas production: Trump/Vance, Reform UK, AfD.
As head of DOGE, he also defunded the NOAA, which monitors climate change, and the National Weather Service, such that meteorologists say they can no longer track hurricanes accurately, making extreme weather more devastating.
Musk has also called for 1% of Earth’s resources to be directed to making humanity multiplanetary.
It seems Musk is Mars first and killing net zero and accelerating climate breakdown is his chosen accelerant for prioritizing putting the resources into his mission to take a million people to Mars with him over the next 20-30 years.
Grok Suggested Musk’s installation of climate change deniers in government is to achieve:
* technology before environment,
* climate change denialism to redirect net-zero resources,
* climate breakdown to justify ‘humanity’s backup’.
Anyone have a better explanation for Musk’s entry into politics?
Crossing fingers and hoping for a fully successful flight 10! The dedicated team at SpaceX has done everything possible to make this flight a step forward in the starship program. Let’s all channel a positive spirit and get this one done right!
There never was a Saturn rocket failure Here we are for the 10th Starship launch with more to go before this rocket is really operational. What does that say about the development process for this “marvel of engineering”
I hope it goes!!
Awe bummer! Ill put my scrub shirt on!
Wow!!
Thank-you!!
❤️ Thank you for your great coverage of America’s launches!