Tenth time lucky for Elon Musk’s firm as largely successful mission was likely a relief to both SpaceX and Nasa

After a series of high-profile setbacks, SpaceX made significant progress in righting the ship for its Starship program, at least for one mission. The latest generation of the world's most powerful rocket and spacecraft combo completed its mission on Tuesday evening during its 10th test flight, achieving the company's primary objectives.

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SpaceX officials succeeded in their third attempt this week to launch the 10th Starship test mission after scrubbing its planned launches on Sunday and Monday.

"Congratulations to @SpaceX on its Starship test. Flight 10's success paves the way for the Starship Human Landing System that will bring American astronauts back to the Moon on Artemis III," NASA's acting administrator Sean Duffy wrote on X following the flight. "This is a great day for @NASA and our commercial space partners."

The SpaceX ship blasted off from the Starbase launch site in South Texas just after 6:30 p.m. before deploying a test payload of eight dummy satellites into space

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