{"id":221024,"date":"2025-08-27T00:54:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T05:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/spacexs-troubled-starship-prototype-pulls-off-successful-flight-after-months-of-explosive-mishaps"},"modified":"2025-08-27T00:54:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T05:54:46","slug":"spacexs-troubled-starship-prototype-pulls-off-successful-flight-after-months-of-explosive-mishaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/spacexs-troubled-starship-prototype-pulls-off-successful-flight-after-months-of-explosive-mishaps","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX\u2019s troubled Starship prototype pulls off successful flight after months of explosive mishaps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacexs-troubled-starship-prototype-pulls-off-successful-flight-after-months-of-explosive-mishaps.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 SpaceX <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/08\/23\/science\/starship-megarocket-spacex\">launched the 10th test flight<\/a> of its Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy rocket booster tonight. Both achieved successful splashdowns on opposite sides of the world during the roughly hour-long test.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The test flight marked a signficant and encouraging stride forward for SpaceX\u2019s Starship program, which had experienced a string of explosive missteps <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2025\/01\/17\/science\/spacex-starship-explosion-investigation\">dating back to January<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Tonight\u2019s success could queue up SpaceX to conduct another boundary-pushing flight next month, aimed at improving the vehicle\u2019s performance before SpaceX upgrades to a larger version of Starship next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 SpaceX launched the 10th test flight of its Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy rocket booster tonight. Both achieved successful splashdowns on opposite sides of the world during the roughly hour-long test. \u2022 The test flight marked a signficant and encouraging stride forward for SpaceX\u2019s Starship program, which had experienced a string of explosive missteps [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}