Flight report · August 26, 2025
Flight 10: Payload deploy, relight, and a clean V2 scorecard
August 26, 2025 finally closed the loop. Starship deployed eight Starlink simulators, completed a second in-space Raptor relight, returned stressed reentry data, and made soft splashdowns on both ends of the stack.
Starship V2 · Orbital Launch Pad 1 · Flight 10 of 14
Outcome
Major V2 objectives met
- Ship
- Ship 37Success
- Expended · Expended after flight
- Booster
- Booster 16Success
- Expended · Expended after flight
Key figures
- Liftoff
- 6:30 p.m. CT · Aug 26
- Pad
- Orbital Launch Pad 1
- Payload
- 8 Starlink simulators
- Result
- Objectives met
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The flight
What happened
Flight 10 lifted off at 6:30 p.m. CT on August 26, 2025 and met every major objective SpaceX had put on the card for the V2 generation.
Hot-staging, booster return to a splashdown zone with a intentional engine-out landing-burn demo, ship ascent, payload deploy, relight, and Indian Ocean splashdown all closed.
02 / 03
First payload deploy
During coast, Starship opened the payload path and deployed eight Starlink simulators. It was the first successful payload demonstration from Starship.
A Raptor in-space relight followed, repeating a capability first shown on Flight 6 and needed for future deorbit burns.
03 / 03
Stressed reentry
Entry intentionally pushed heat-shield and structural limits before a landing flip and soft splashdown in the Indian Ocean.
The flight became the reference V2 integrated success heading into the Pad 1 closeout flight.