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SpaceX Starship Flight 15 live updates: Giant Starship stacked for launch and 1st-ever double catch landing
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SpaceX is counting down to make history with the launch of its Starship Flight 15 mission on Friday, Nov. 13, with liftoff scheduled for 5:45 p.m. EDT (2245 GMT) at Starbase, Texas. Starship Flight 15 will attempt to land both Starship Ship and Super Heavy Booster. It will be the first-ever full recovery of an orbital rocket and spacecraft, if successful.
Follow our Starship Flight 15 coverage here as SpaceX completes its final prelaunch work for the launch, which will also deliver 26 new Starlink V3 satellites into orbit.
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Good morning, Space Fans, it is launch day for SpaceX's Starship Flight 15 and the world's largest rocket is now hours away from attempting its first double landing test flight. Liftoff remains on target for today, Nov. 13, at 5:45 p.m. EST (2245 GMT) from SpaceX's Starbase launch site in South Texas. You'll be able to watch the Starship Flight 15 launch on this page, as well as on Space.com's homepage and our YouTube channel VideoFromSpace. Our live webcast will begin at 5:15 p.m. EST (2215 GMT).
Last night, SpaceX rolled the Ship 42 upper stage out to the Starship launch pad and stacked it atop its Super Heavy booster. The Ship's number was accompanied by a fun sci-fi message - "Don't Panic" - in a nod to the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy books by Douglas Adams. Elon Musk's Tesla bore the same message when SpaceX launched it into space on the first Falcon Heavy mission.
Space.com's Josh Dinner is on site at Starbase and will be providing updates as possible from Starbase, which we'll share here as they're received.
SpaceX's Starship Flight 15 is the 15th test flight of Starship, the world's largest and most powerful rocket. SpaceX has designed the rocket to be fully reusable, and has landed its massive Super Heavy first stage booster several times.
Flight 15 is SpaceX's first attempt to land both the Super Heavy booster and its Ship upper stage by returning them to their launch pad and catching them in the pad's metal "Chopstick" arms. The landings will be about 22 hours apart, with Super Heavy landing minutes after launch and the Ship upper stage returning to Starbase on Saturday afternoon.
We'll be updating this page throughout the day with news from Josh, SpaceX and Starbase for this unprecedented 22.5-hour test flight. Here's our full timeline for SpaceX Starship Flight 15.