A fter two scrubbed launch attempts earlier in the week, Elon Musk's SpaceX succeeded in carrying out the 10th test flight of its Starship/Super Heavy combination vehicle, which launched from Starbase headquarters in the Rio Grande Valley on Tuesday, August 26.

SpaceX has long marketed Starship as a fully and rapidly reusable rocket that’s designed to deliver thousands of pounds of cargo to Mars and make life multiplanetary. But reusability at scale means a space vehicle that can tolerate mishaps and faults, so that a single failure doesn’t spell a mission-ending catastrophe.

Flight 10 launched from SpaceX’s Starbase facility in Texas. The two-stage vehicle’s Super Heavy booster lit its 33 Raptor engines, lifting off with 10.8 million pounds of propellant and generating more power than 64 Boeing 747 airliners.