SpaceX Reclaims Starship V3 After 65-Minute Suborbital Flight
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SpaceX is recovering the Starship Version 3 spacecraft that completed a 65-minute suborbital flight on July 24, marking its first opportunity to analyze a flown Starship; the ship landed in the Indian Ocean with a soft splashdown and a precision landing that could have been caught by the tower arms.
- SpaceX Begins Recovery Of First Flown Starship V3 Aviation Week
- NASA Heat Shield Experts Warn Starship Shielding Could Be a 'Dead End' extremetech.com
- Starship is still floating in the ocean, five days after launch Yahoo
- Super Heavy-Starship rocket chalks up mostly successful test flight Spaceflight Now
- On Second Test of Its Newest Starship Design, SpaceX Sticks the Landing The New York Times
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