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- **Posted:** 2025-10-14T20:30:00.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** PCMag (@pcmag) — https://gondola.cc/pcmag

## Caption

SpaceX’s Starship hit its marks for the second time in a row on Monday night. 🚀

Last night, Starship’s 11th launch began at 6:23 Central time from its Starbase facility near Boca Chica, Texas. It was the second liftoff for the 403-foot-tall rocket’s first stage, which flew before on Starship’s eighth launch.

Three of the four previous flights of this Block 2 configuration of Starship, ended in failures of this stage: It exploded in the upper atmosphere on the seventh and eighth Starship launches, then tumbled out of control on the ninth mission and disintegrated on re-entry. 

On Monday’s flight, however, the upper stage’s coast in space featured a successful deployment of simulated Starlink satellites. SpaceX is banking on Starship’s ability to deliver larger, more capable versions of those low-Earth-orbit broadband satellites. 

While above Earth, Starship’s upper stage also relit one engine in space, a test of its ability to maneuver in orbit, and then began a fiery fall through the upper atmosphere. 

The stage survived re-entry as seen in this video livestreamed via Starlink, performing a series of banking turns as if it were returning for a launch-tower catch. As planned, the stage splashed down in the Indian Ocean; moments later, it tipped over and exploded. 

NASA Acting Administrator Sean Duffy posted a note of confidence on X after Monday’s flight test: “Another major step toward landing Americans on the Moon’s south pole.”

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