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SpaceX’s 403-foot Starship is set to lift off Sunday evening from the company’s Starbase facility in South Texas, marking its most ambitious test yet after a string of setbacks.

The launch, SpaceX’s tenth test flight, comes after multiple failures in recent years — including three disastrous explosions in 2025 alone.

Between January and June, SpaceX suffered four Starship setbacks — a dramatic explosion in its first test flight, a midair blast in the second, a fiery destruction in the third, and finally a ground-test explosion following those in-flight failures.

Now engineers will attempt a series of high-risk maneuvers designed to prove Starship’s reusability, a critical step in owner Elon Musk’s long-term plan to re

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