WASHINGTON — SpaceX is set to conduct its next Starship test flight as the company continues to test the launch vehicle and play well with others in airspace.

The Flight 11 mission of Starship is scheduled to launch from the company’s Starbase test site in South Texas at 7:15 p.m. Eastern on Oct. 13. SpaceX said in a social media post Oct. 12 that there is an 80% chance of favorable weather for the launch.

The mission will be another suborbital flight similar to the Flight 10 mission in August . It will include deployments of mass simulators of next-generation Starlink satellites and a relight of a single Raptor engine while Starship is in space. SpaceX also plans to test the vehicle’s thermal protection system and perform a “dynamic banking maneuver” before splashdown in the Indian Oc

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