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52 missions

  1. Kakushin Rising

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  2. Daughter Of The Stars

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  3. Eight Days A Week

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  4. Insight At Speed Is A Friend Indeed

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  5. Tranche 1 Transport Layer C

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  6. Photo: Steve Jurvetson / CC BY 2.0

    Starship Flight 10

    A run through the objectives

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    Starship's tenth flight test lifted off from Starbase, Texas, on 26 August 2025 at 6:30 in the evening Central time. SpaceX states that every major objective was met, which gave data for the next generation of Starship and Super Heavy.

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  7. Photo: GOES imagery: CSU/CIRA & NOAA / Public domain

    Starship Flight 8

    Booster caught, ship lost on ascent

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    Starship's eighth flight test lifted off from Starbase, Texas, at the top of its window, about 5:30 in the evening Central time, with all 33 booster engines lit. The Super Heavy booster was caught at the tower, but the ship lost several engines near the end of its ascent burn, lost attitude control and contact with it was lost.

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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. Photo: Airman 1st Class Ryan Quijas / Public domain

    Space Development Agency Tranche 0 (second mission)

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

    Starlink 6-9

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