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12 missions

  1. Photo: Osunpokeh / CC BY-SA 4.0

    Starship Flight 14

    The first Starship to reach orbit

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    Starship Flight 14 lifted off from Starbase in South Texas on 28 September 2026 with Booster 21 and Ship 41, and the ship reached orbit for the first time. It deployed 26 Starlink V3 satellites, all of which made contact, and then came back to a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.

    8 video perspectives

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  2. Photo: Jenny Hautmann / CC BY-SA 4.0

    Starship Flight 13

    The second V3 flight, with 20 Starlink V3 satellites

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    Starship Flight 13 launched from Pad 2 at Starbase on 24 July 2026 with Booster 20 and Ship 40, after an earlier attempt aborted at engine start. The booster splashed down in the Gulf, and the ship's six engines shut down with a call-out of nominal orbit insertion.

    4 video perspectives

  3. 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.

    1 video perspective

  4. 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.

    1 video perspective

  5. 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.

    1 video perspective

  6. 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.

    2 video perspectives

  7. 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.

    2 video perspectives

  8. Photo: Mobilus In Mobili / CC BY-SA 2.0

    Starship Super Heavy Booster 9 static fire

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    1 video perspective

  9. Photo: NASA / Public domain

    International Space Station deorbit

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    1 video perspective

    • How the ISS Will Be Destroyed at Point Nemo in 2030

      The B1M explains how the International Space Station was built from Zarya in 1998 onward and why it is planned to be brought down in 2030 by a specially modified SpaceX Dragon, ending in the ocean…

      Published 26 Mar 2025

  10. Photo: Shujianyang / CC BY-SA 4.0

    Starship Flight 11

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  11. Artemis III

    A crewed rehearsal for the Moon, flown in Earth orbit

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    Artemis III is NASA's planned 14-day crewed flight in low Earth orbit, set for summer 2027, in which an Orion crew of four will dock with test versions of the Blue Origin and SpaceX lunar landers. It replaced the original plan to land on the Moon, and NASA now aims to put astronauts on the surface with Artemis IV in 2028.

    3 video perspectives

  12. Photo: Steve Jurvetson from Los Altos, USA / CC BY 2.0

    Starship Flight 12

    The first Starship V3 launch from Pad 2

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    Starship Flight 12 was the first flight of the Starship version 3 vehicle, Booster 19 and Ship 39, from the new Pad 2 at Starbase, on 22 May 2026. The ship lost one vacuum engine on ascent but reached space and deployed its payloads, and the booster shut down early on its boostback burn.

    4 video perspectives