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SpaceX has moved its Starship spacecraft to the launch pad for testing ahead of the vehicle’s 10th flight, which is expected to take place next month from the company’s Starbase site in South Texas. SpaceX announced the milestone on Monday evening (July 28) in a post on X, which chronicled the journey of the 171-foot-tall (52-meter-tall) Starship upper stage in …

SpaceX is nine full-scale test launches into developing its enormous, nearly 400-feet-tall Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built. Over the last two and a half years, we’ve seen over half a dozen spectacular explosions. Two launches earlier this year sent massive streaks of debris hurtling over the Turks and Caicos Islands, prompting airspace closures. Its most recent test in …