“Insane, wild!”: SpaceX pulls off historic Starship catch during Flight 15

SpaceX’s Starship Flight 15 has made history by achieving a major milestone today! Ship 42, after deploying all 26 Starlink V3 satellites into orbit and completing 14 orbits of Earth, made a successful reentry and was caught by Mechazilla at Starbase, Texas on November 14. It is the first successful catch of Starship’s upper stage. The flight was launched on November 13 at 4:47 p.m. CST. While the Super Heavy booster was also scheduled for a catch, a last-minute change due to a fuel shortage forced the team to divert it to a planned splashdown in the Gulf of America.