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Starship is coming home! SpaceX loads floating spacecraft onto huge ship in the Indian Ocean
More than a month after its epic spaceflight, Starship is finally headed home.SpaceX announced today (Aug. 27) that it has loaded Starship's 171-foot-tall (52 meters) upper stage — known as Starship, or simply Ship — onto a huge "semi-submersible" ship in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Christmas Island.Ship had been in the water since July 24, when it splashed down to bring an end to the Starship program's 13th test flight. The vehicle will …
A month after landing in the Indian Ocean, the upper stage of SpaceX's Starship was lifted out of the water and stowed onto a giant ship. Head for Texas, for an inspection the company had never hoped to carry out.
An unprecedented operation was successfully completed off Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean: the Starship prototype was loaded onto the deck of the specialized semi-submersible vessel Forte. Image source: Chris Bray. Ship 40 made history as the first spacecraft to successfully survive its reentry through the dense layers of the atmosphere, complete a soft landing, and complete a soft landing following its 13th test launch on July 24, 2026. Th…
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