SpaceX Starship Flight 11 – Full Flight & Reentry | Booster Splashdown Test (Oct 2025)

Watch SpaceX’s Starship Flight 11 launch from Starbase, Texas — complete ascent, coast, reentry, and splashdown footage.

Here’s the short version of what SpaceX plans to test on Starship Flight 11:
Super Heavy booster (B15-2)

New landing-burn profile: start the landing burn on 13 engines, then down-select to five, and finally to three, to add redundancy for engine-out tolerance on next-gen boosters. It ends with a hover cut-off and Gulf splashdown (no tower catch this time).

Ascent + hot-staging + boostback as usual, with the catch intentionally skipped to isolate variables for the new burn test.

Starship upper stage (Ship 38)

Deploy 8 Starlink mass simulators (dummy sats) during coast.

In-space Raptor relight on a sea-level engine during the coast phase.

Heat-shield stress tests: intentionally removed tile patches (including areas without backup ablative) to study local heating and failure margins and evaluate improved sealing methods (“crunch-wrap” felt between tiles).

Reentry & guidance experiments: a dynamic banking maneuver to test subsonic guidance algorithms that will be used when future ships return to Starbase for a tower catch; ends with Indian Ocean splashdown.

Program/vehicle context (not a “test,” but relevant tonight)

Final flight of the V2/Block-2 stack and last launch from Pad 1(A) in its current configuration) before moving to the V3 hardware and an upgraded pad design.

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