SpaceX Achieves Milestone with Successful Starship Launch

Wed Oct 22 2025 14:22:12 GMT+0300 (Eastern European Summer Time)

SpaceX successfully launched its Starship rocket, marking a significant step towards future lunar missions and demonstrating resilience after previous failures.

In a stunning comeback, SpaceX successfully launched its Starship rocket, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built, from Texas. The 60-minute test flight represents a critical advancement for SpaceX and NASA's Artemis program, aiming to send humans to the Moon by 2027. Despite challenges, including engine explosions and fiery flaps during the flight, the mission's achievements position SpaceX for future, potentially crewed missions to Mars.

SpaceX has pulled off a successful test flight of its newest generation rocket Starship, reversing a trend of disappointing failures.

The world's largest and most powerful rocket blasted off from Texas just after 18:30 local time (23:30 BST) for a nail-biting 60-minute flight.

Parts of the engine appeared to explode at one stage, and flaps on the side of the rocket caught fire and swung from side-to-side.

US space agency NASA plans to use Starship to send humans to the Moon for its Artemis programme in 2027.

Great work by the SpaceX team!!, posted SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on X.

After three Starship launches ended in failure this year, and one rocket explosion on the launch pad in June, Musk welcomed the success.

Starship, which consists of a booster called Super Heavy and the spacecraft Starship itself, was designed to be a fully reusable transport system capable of carrying people to the Moon and Mars.

The test flight showed promising signs, with all 33 engines firing up successfully before the booster separated and fell into the Gulf of Mexico.

You can watch the full test flight video and review the achievements of this significant mission, which aims to pave the way for future lunar exploration.