Starship Has Finally Gone Orbital. Now Comes the Hard Part
For a moment, it looked like Starship’s first attempt at orbital flight would end in failure. SpaceX’s megarocket launched from Starbase, Texas, Monday morning, ascending amid a blaze of fire. Roughly two and a half minutes into the flight, the Super Heavy booster separated from the upper stage and went on to make a controlled splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico.
- ▪For a moment, it looked like Starship’s first attempt at orbital flight would end in failure.
- ▪SpaceX’s megarocket launched from Starbase, Texas, Monday morning, ascending amid a blaze of fire.
- ▪Roughly two and a half minutes into the flight, the Super Heavy booster separated from the upper stage and went on to make a controlled splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico.
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| Publication time | Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:25:44 +0000 |
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For a moment, it looked like Starship’s first attempt at orbital flight would end in failure. SpaceX’s megarocket launched from Starbase, Texas, Monday morning, ascending amid a blaze of fire. Roughly two and a half minutes into the flight, the Super Heavy booster separated from the upper stage and went on to make a controlled splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico. Starship then performed an initial engine burn to reach space, but during the burn, one of its Raptor 3 engines suddenly shut down. Dan Huot, SpaceX communications manager and host of the company’s launch webcasts, did his best to stall while flight controllers frantically deliberated standing down from the single-engine burn that would put Starship into orbit.
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