Boosters are typically test fired in the days and weeks leading up to launches as SpaceX takes measures to ensure they're safe for liftoff.

SpaceX has not yet announced a target launch date for its next Starship flight 10, but Musk has previously indicated his desire to ramp up testing to one or more a month.

Starship most recently got off the ground Aug. 26 from SpaceX's sprawling Starbase for its most successful launch of 2025.

SpaceX is rapidly preparing to launch its Starship megarocket once again close on the heels of the most successful test flight of the year for a spacecraft due in the years ahead to fly humans to the moon and Mars .

The commercial spaceflight company founded by billionaire Elon Musk recently performed a crucial test fire of its lower stage rocket booster a

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