{"id":85979,"date":"2025-08-28T09:37:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T04:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=85979"},"modified":"2025-08-28T09:37:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T04:37:37","slug":"musks-starship-clears-key-tests-in-10th-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/musks-starship-clears-key-tests-in-10th-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk\u2019s Starship clears key tests in 10th flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>washington<br \/>\nElon Musk\u2019s SpaceX on Tuesday launched its giant Starship rocket for the 10th test flight, aiming to overcome past setbacks and prove key milestones for the reusable Mars-bound system.<br \/>\nThe 403-foot-tall vehicle blasted off from SpaceX\u2019s Starbase in south Texas at 7.30pm EST (2330 GMT), testing new heat shield tiles, a redesigned engine landing system, and a satellite deployment mechanism.<br \/>\nAs planned, Starship\u2019s upper stage separated from its Super Heavy booster, which ditched into the Gulf of Mexico instead of attempting a tower catch. The spacecraft then re-entered Earth\u2019s atmosphere before splashing down in the Indian Ocean \u2014 surviving a re-entry phase that destroyed earlier prototypes.<br \/>\nIn another first, Starship successfully deployed mock Starlink satellites using its \u201cPez-like\u201d dispenser system, a milestone missed in previous tests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>washington Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX on Tuesday launched its giant Starship rocket for the 10th test flight, aiming to overcome past setbacks and prove key milestones for the reusable Mars-bound system. The 403-foot-tall vehicle blasted off from SpaceX\u2019s Starbase in south Texas at 7.30pm EST (2330 GMT), testing new heat shield tiles, a redesigned engine landing &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":85990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85993,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85979\/revisions\/85993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}