{"id":19905,"date":"2025-08-27T08:38:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T06:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/27\/starships-are-meant-to-fly-spacexs-rocket-finally-launches-after-setbacks\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T08:38:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T06:38:36","slug":"starships-are-meant-to-fly-spacexs-rocket-finally-launches-after-setbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/27\/starships-are-meant-to-fly-spacexs-rocket-finally-launches-after-setbacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Starships are meant to fly: SpaceX\u2019s rocket finally launches after setbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Test flight comes after explosive failures raised doubts over founder Elon Musk\u2019s goals to reach Mars and moon<\/p>\n<p>Third time was the charm on Tuesday for the launch of SpaceX\u2019s Starship megarocket after the launch had been scrubbed two times in as many days. The success of this 10th flight proved the spacecraft had overcome its past failures key to the Mars rocket\u2019s reusable design.<\/p>\n<p>The stainless steel behemoth, 403ft (123 meters) tall, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SpaceX\/status\/1960179929204596907\">lifted off<\/a> from the company\u2019s Starbase in southern Texas at 6.30pm local time (2330 GMT), to loud cheers from engineering teams, a webcast showed. This mission was to be a test of the ship\u2019s new heat shield tiles and satellite deployment abilities, among hundreds of other upgrades from past iterations.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/aug\/26\/spacex-starship-launch\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/2e3309a2f4ff60974293f351fa0d599aa028bf7d\/498_0_4505_3604\/master\/4505.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=74f45e406111174d88cebfcacf2ba502\" title=\"Starships are meant to fly: SpaceX\u2019s rocket finally launches after setbacks\" \/>Test flight comes after explosive failures raised doubts over founder Elon Musk\u2019s goals to reach Mars and moon<br \/>\nThird time was the charm on Tuesday for the launch of SpaceX\u2019s Starship megarocket after the launch had been scrubbed two times in as many days. The success of this 10th flight proved the spacecraft had overcome its past failures key to the Mars rocket\u2019s reusable design.<br \/>\nThe stainless steel behemoth, 403ft (123 meters) tall, lifted off from the company\u2019s Starbase in southern Texas at 6.30pm local time (2330 GMT), to loud cheers from engineering teams, a webcast showed. This mission was to be a test of the ship\u2019s new heat shield tiles and satellite deployment abilities, among hundreds of other upgrades from past iterations. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Test flight comes after explosive failures raised doubts over founder Elon Musk\u2019s goals to reach Mars and moon Third time was the charm on Tuesday for the launch of SpaceX\u2019s Starship megarocket after the launch had been scrubbed two times in as many days. The success of this 10th flight proved the spacecraft had overcome &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/27\/starships-are-meant-to-fly-spacexs-rocket-finally-launches-after-setbacks\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Starships are meant to fly: SpaceX\u2019s rocket finally launches after setbacks<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19905"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}