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Super Heavy moved to the launch pad at Starbase. Booster 22 is the first Super Heavy V3 booster planned to return to the launch site for catch and was used for final catch testing upon arrival, including a suspended squeeze test at catch height
IT’S HAPPENING 🚨 SpaceX will try to catch both halves of Starship out of the sky for the first time ever on Friday the 13th 🔥
This is the one we've been waiting for. Flight 15 is targeting Friday, November 13, with a 75-minute launch window opening at 4:45 pm Central (5:45 pm Eastern), pending regulatory approval.
And the plan is absolutely wild.
About six and a half minutes after liftoff, the Starbase tower fans call Mechazilla will try to catch the Super Heavy booster. Then, more than 22 hours later, it will try to pluck the Starship upper stage itself out of the sky as it comes home from orbit.
If both catches work, SpaceX says it will be the first full recovery of an orbital launch system in history.
SpaceX says that milestone is often called the Holy Grail of rocketry, and it's easy to see why. Every orbital rocket before Starship has thrown away at least one piece.
Here's everything that has to go right 👇
🔥 BOOSTER 22 AND SHIP 42 PASSED THEIR TESTS, AND THE TOWER GOT FASTER
Meet the stars of the show: Booster 22 and Ship 42, launching from Pad 2 at Starbase. They're the fourth pair of the bigger, beefier V3 Starship to fly.
Both have already crushed their ground tests. Booster 22 lit all 33 Raptors in a full-duration static fire on October 25. Ship 42 fired all six of its engines for 60 seconds, then lit a single Raptor by itself to rehearse the deorbit burn that will bring it home.
Ship 42 has even shaken hands with the chopsticks already. Back in September, the tower lifted it into a simulated post-catch position and held it against the arm that would hook it up after a real landing. It was a full dress rehearsal for the real thing.
Several V3 upgrades point straight at this moment.
The booster's grid fins went from four to three, and each one is now 50% larger with a brand-new catch point. The ship's rear flaps now run on a single actuator with three motors, which SpaceX says gives it more redundancy for flying back to the launch site.
Even the tower got quicker reflexes, with shorter chopsticks and electric actuators that move faster and track the vehicle during a catch.
🚀 SUPER HEAVY FLIES BACK TO THE TOWER IN SIX AND A HALF MINUTES
Super Heavy's job is short, loud and intense. It punches through peak aerodynamic stress about 58 seconds after liftoff and shuts down most of its 33 engines at 2 minutes 19 seconds. Two seconds later, Starship lights its own Raptors while the two stages are still connected and blasts free in a hot-staging separation.
Then the booster spins around and fires a 36-second boostback burn to aim itself back at Texas. Its landing burn kicks off at about 6 minutes 10 seconds, and the catch is planned for 6 minutes 35 seconds. That's the first stage of the biggest rocket ever built, up and back home in under seven minutes.
SpaceX has nailed this move before with the older V1 booster. Three were caught on earlier flights, and two of them flew again. Booster 22 gets to be the first V3 Super Heavy to try it.
🛰️ STARSHIP DROPS 26 STARLINKS, THEN WAITS 21 HOURS FOR STARBASE TO COME AROUND
Ship 42 starts out on a passively safe suborbital path, which is a fancy way of saying it's already aimed at a cleared patch of the Indian Ocean. If anything goes wrong during the climb, gravity takes care of the rest.
Once controllers like what they see, they give the go for orbit. At the 26-minute mark, a single sea-level Raptor fires for about 20 seconds and pushes Starship into orbit at about 275 km (roughly 170 miles).
Then it's delivery time. Over about 40 minutes, Starship releases 26 Starlink V3 satellites, and SpaceX says each one adds 1 terabit per second of capacity to the network. That single batch adds as much capacity as about 10 Falcon 9 launches of the older V2 Mini satellites.
Three of those satellites have a bonus job, and it's a clever one. They carry cameras that will photograph Starship's heat shield and beam the images down to the team, like a personal inspection crew flying alongside. SpaceX says those photos are one of several data sources that will decide whether Starship is ready to come home.
The heat shield got some serious upgrades after Flight 14, too. Tiles in the spots most likely to fall off during ascent now have extra retention. SpaceX also went after the areas where hot plasma could sneak behind the tiles. On top of that, a large part of the shield now uses curved tiles, which have been shown to reduce heating in the gaps between them.
Then comes the long wait, and this is where Flight 15 goes big. Flight 14 reached orbit and deployed all 26 of its Starlinks, but an early engine shutdown cut its planned coast short. This time, Starship is going for about 14 orbits.
That number sounds random until you run the math. Each lap around Earth at that height takes about 90 minutes. While Starship circles, Earth keeps spinning underneath it by roughly 22 degrees every lap, so its path over the ground keeps sliding west. Starship simply has to wait for Starbase to swing back under its path, and 14 laps of 90 minutes adds up to about 21 hours of coasting.
Mission control won't waste a minute of it. The team will run nonstop manual and automated checks on engine health, power and communications, the flight computers and navigation sensors, the strength of the tanks and feedlines, tank pressure and attitude control. SpaceX says these limits are intentionally conservative, and that's exactly what you want on a first try.
There are three built-in exit ramps along the way, too. An early Hawaii return check comes about an hour and a half in, a mid-mission option to splash down off Chile comes at about 7 hours, and a final Hawaii check comes at about 20 hours 40 minutes. If anything looks off, Starship can bail out to one of those cleared ocean zones instead.
🎯 FOR THE FIRST TIME, STARSHIP COMES HOME OVER LAND AND INTO THE TOWER'S ARMS
Starship only gets the green light to come home if it meets conditions SpaceX developed itself and the FAA approved. Once it does, a single Raptor 3 fires for about 10 seconds to drop it out of orbit, and it slams into the atmosphere over the Pacific, thousands of kilometers west of Starbase.
This is where things get really exciting.
Every earlier Starship reentry happened over empty ocean, but this time it's flying home over land.
It will use its four flaps to make a series of small turns, steering over sparsely populated parts of northern Mexico and southern Texas.
It will weave around the big cities of the Rio Grande Valley, pass north of South Padre Island, swing out over the Gulf and make a final turn south toward Starbase. If you live in Cameron County, listen up, because you may hear one or more sonic booms as it arrives.
Flying over land on the way home isn't new for spaceflight at all. Every returning Space Shuttle did it, Dragon did it for years, and Soyuz and China's Shenzhou still do.
SpaceX also earned its confidence the hard way. On earlier flights, it deliberately pulled dozens of heat shield tiles and flew maneuvers that hammered the ship far harder than a normal return ever would.
Then comes the moment we've all been waiting for. Over the pad, Starship does its signature bellyflop, falling belly-first like a giant skydiver. Just before it reaches the tower, it lights three sea-level Raptors and flips upright while tucking its flaps away.
From there, it's a beautifully choreographed engine handoff. Starship drops to two engines as it slides between the chopstick arms, then to just one as it settles into a near hover. The arms snap shut on two catch fittings just below the forward flaps, and the instant Starship feels that contact, it shuts down its last engine.
Even this late in the game, the team still has an escape hatch. They can deliberately tumble Starship so it breaks up high in the atmosphere before it ever reaches land. If the ship or the tower runs into trouble late in the return, they can send it into the Gulf instead.
Elon said on the Q3 earnings call that a successful ship catch is "more likely than not," and those are great odds for something nobody has ever done.
✨ 22 HOURS OF FLIGHT, DECIDED IN ONE SECOND
Just think about what Ship 42 is about to go through. It will spend more than 22 hours in flight, blaze back through the atmosphere and thread its way across two countries to reach the very tower it launched from.
And then the whole mission comes down to about one second. In SpaceX's own timeline, the gap between dropping to a single engine and the catch is barely a single tick of the clock.
If those arms close and hold, the rocket that roared off the pad Friday evening will be right back in the arms of its own tower by Saturday afternoon.
More than a dozen flight tests and years of development, with countless hours worked by SpaceX engineers and technicians, all come down to this: the first orbital Starship launch carrying advanced Starlink satellites bound for space.
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