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  1. Photo: NASA/Don Pettit / Public domain

    Starship Flight 6

    A catch called off, an engine relit in space

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    Starship's sixth flight test launched from Starbase on 19 November 2024 with all 33 booster engines. The booster catch was called off after automated health checks of the tower hardware and it splashed down softly in the Gulf of Mexico, and the ship relit a Raptor engine in space and made a soft splashdown in the Indian Ocean.

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  2. Photo: Steve Jurvetson / CC BY 2.0

    Starship Flight 5

    The booster is caught by the tower

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    On 13 October 2024 SpaceX flew Starship's fifth test flight from Starbase and caught the Super Heavy booster with the chopstick arms of the launch and catch tower on the first attempt. The ship completed a controlled re-entry and a splashdown in the Indian Ocean, and the flight ended 1 hour, 5 minutes and 40 seconds after launch.

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  3. Photo: Airman 1st Class Ryan Quijas / Public domain

    Space Development Agency Tranche 0 (second mission)

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  4. Photo: U.S. Space Force photo by Joshua Conti / Public domain

    Crew-7

    The first Dragon crew drawn from four space agencies

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    Crew-7 launched on 26 August 2023 from Kennedy Space Center on a Falcon 9, carrying Jasmin Moghbeli of NASA, Andreas Mogensen of ESA, Satoshi Furukawa of JAXA and Konstantin Borisov of Roscosmos. Their Dragon Endurance docked autonomously with the International Space Station on 27 August.

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  5. Photo: U.S. Space Force photo by Gwendolyn Kurzen / Public domain

    Starlink Mission

    Seven Falcon 9 launches that show how reuse works

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    This page covers seven Falcon 9 launches that carried Starlink internet satellites between 7 July and 16 August 2023, from Vandenberg in California and Cape Canaveral in Florida. Their boosters were on their 4th to 16th flights, and each one landed again, which is the point of the set.

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  6. Photo: U.S. Space Force photo by Joshua Conti / Public domain

    Starlink 6-9

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  7. Hughes JUPITER 3

    A Falcon Heavy, a stuck valve and the biggest commercial satellite

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    Hughes JUPITER 3 was a communications satellite of over nine tons, built by Maxar for EchoStar's Hughes Network Systems and described on air as the largest commercial communication satellite launched into geostationary orbit. A Falcon Heavy launched it from Kennedy Space Center late on 28 July 2023, after a countdown abort at T-minus 1 minute 5 seconds two days before.

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  8. Photo: U.S. Space Force photo by Joshua Conti / Public domain

    Starlink Group 6-15

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  9. Photo: U.S. Space Force photo by Joshua Conti / Public domain

    Starlink V1.5 (Falcon 9, 54 satellites)

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  10. Photo: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory / Public domain

    Euclid

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  11. Photo: U.S. Space Force photo by Senior Airman Samuel Becker / Public domain

    Starlink

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  12. Photo: Osunpokeh / CC BY-SA 4.0

    Starship Flight 1

    The first integrated test of Starship and Super Heavy

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    On 20 April 2023 SpaceX flew a fully integrated Starship (Ship 24) on a Super Heavy booster (Booster 7) for the first time, from Starbase in Texas. The stack cleared the pad and reached an apogee of about 39 km, but several engines went out, the vehicle began to tumble and the flight termination system was commanded.

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