Starship's Upper Stage Begins Long Ride Home on Submersible Hauler
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SpaceX loaded Starship’s 171-foot upper stage onto a semi-submersible recovery ship off Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean after its 13th flight, sending the vehicle toward SpaceX’s Starbase in Texas. The return voyage will span several months, with engineers collecting heat-shield data and other measurements from the mission to inform future Starship designs, following a flight that deployed 20 Starlink satellites and ended with a soft splashdown.
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