Starship’s 10th flight breaks streak of bad luck

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SpaceX’s mega rocket Starship makes a test flight from Starbase, Texas, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2025. (Eric Gay | AP)SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket racked up some much-needed successes on its 10th test flight, hitting key test objectives and breaking a streak of failures that bedeviled the spaceship this year. But on the last test flight the ship’s payload bay door failed to open. Congratulations to the entire SpaceX team on an exciting tenth flight test of Starship!” SpaceX wrote on X. Still, she points out that no matter what happens during a single test flight of Starship, SpaceX’s place as the leading American launch company is secure.