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Watch live: SpaceX's giant Starship to make 11th test flight

By Catherine Stoddard

Watch live: SpaceX's giant Starship to make 11th test flight

SpaceX's Starship is set to make its 11th test flight Monday afternoon.

The launch is scheduled during a 75-minute window that begins at 7:15 p.m. ET, according to the SpaceX website.

Starship will lift off from SpaceX's Starbase site in Texas.

LiveNOW from FOX will live stream the launch. Coverage begins at 7 p.m. ET.

Dig deeper:

The 11th launch will stress test Starship's heatshield and will demonstrate "maneuvers that will mimic the upper stage's final approach for a future return to launch site," SpaceX's website said.

The booster on this test flight previously flew on Flight 8.

The backstory:

Starship is being developed with the ultimate goal of carrying astronauts to the moon and eventually Mars.

While the company has not announced a firm timeline for human spaceflight exploration aboard Starship, the program is considered to be an important part of NASA's Artemis lunar program.

The space agency had previously announced plans to use a modified version of SpaceX's Starship, starting with the Artemis 3 mission, which could launch as early as 2027.

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