Starship completes tenth test flight, breaking string of failures

Starship Flight 10 liftoff — SpaceX’s Starship/Super Heavy vehicle lifts off Aug. 26 on its tenth test flight. Credit: SpaceX

WASHINGTON — SpaceX completed a largely successful test flight of its Starship vehicle Aug. 26, putting the vehicle’s development program back on track after a series of failures earlier this year.

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Jeff Foust writes about space policy, commercial space, and related topics for SpaceNews.

He earned a Ph.D. in planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s degree with honors in geophysics and planetary science…
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