Coming Soon: SpaceX Starship Catch | Flight Test#15 | Starbase Texas

Coming Soon: SpaceX Starship Catch | Flight Test#15 | Starbase Texas

Starship is preparing for catch. Flight 15 is targeting to launch as early as Friday, November 13, 2026, pending regulatory approval. Learn more: https://spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-15

The upcoming flight is planned to be the first to return both Starship and Super Heavy to the launch site for catch. If successful, this will mark the first full recovery of an orbital launch system and a breakthrough moment in making Starship a reliable, rapidly reusable rocket.

Starship’s initial return to launch site mission is expected to orbit the Earth at an altitude of ~275 km and complete approximately 14 orbits around the planet over the course of a more than 22-hour flight. Similar to Starship’s first orbital mission, the flight profile has been designed with the opportunity to insert into a passively safe suborbital trajectory or safely deorbit at multiple pre-determined areas over the ocean after raising to an orbital altitude.

The 75-minute launch window will open at 4:45 p.m. Central Time. As is the case with all launches, the schedule is dynamic and likely to change, so be sure to check at the link above for updates.

NASA plans to use a lunar lander version of Starship to deliver astronauts and cargo to the Moon during the Artemis IV mission and beyond through the Human Landing System (HLS) Program.

Learn more about Starship:
https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/starship/

Download the Free Starship User Guide (PDF):
https://www.spacex.com/media/starship_users_guide_v1.pdf

Video Credit: SpaceX

Duration: 1 minute, 32 seconds

Date: Nov. 7, 2026

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