SpaceX to launch Starship Flight 11 on October 13, Elon Musk confirms

SpaceX is gearing up for the 11th test flight of its Starship megarocket, set to launch Monday evening (October 13) from the company’s Starbase facility in South Texas.

CEO Elon Musk confirmed the timing on his social platform X (formerly Twitter), writing, “Starship flight on Monday ~5pm CT.”

The test, known as Starship Flight 11, is scheduled to lift off during a 75-minute launch window opening at 7:15pm EDT.

Viewers can watch the launch live on SpaceX’s official X account or through the company’s Starship Flight 11 mission page and the X TV app.

This marks the fifth Starship launch of 2025, following the successful Flight 10 in August, which met all major objectives.

Earlier flights this year, including Flights 7, 8, and 9, saw partial success, with the upper stage lost prematurely on each mission.

The upcoming test aims to advance SpaceX’s long-term goals for deep-space exploration.

For those uninitiated, the 400-foot-tall Starship, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built, is central to Musk’s vision of colonizing Mars.

It also serves as NASA’s chosen lander for the Artemis program, which plans to return humans to the Moon.