Elon Musk and his SpaceX team can breathe a collective sigh of relief. After days of postponements, Starship was finally able to launch its 10th test flight from the launch pad in Starbase, Texas.
SpaceX’s largest and most powerful rocket lifted off Tuesday, August 26, at 7:30pm ET, reached an altitude of 192 kilometers, and embarked on a suborbital trajectory at more than 26,000 kilometers per hour toward the Indian Ocean, where the spacecraft splashed down an hour after liftoff.
Tuesday’s Starship liftoff generated anticipation far above other recent SpaceX test flights, with more than 1.8 million viewers watching the livestream on the company’s X account. Why so much interest? For