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2 catches, 1 flight, about 22 hours apart. That's the plan for Starship Flight 15, targeting as soon as Friday, Nov. 13 from Starbase.
For the first time, SpaceX plans to bring both stages home to the tower. Super Heavy, the first V3 booster to try a catch, should be back in the nutes after liftoff. The ship then deploys 26 Starlink V3 satellites, circles Earth about 14 times at roughly 275 km, and returns for its own catch after more than 22 hours.
A neat engineering detail: three of those satellites carry cameras to photograph the ship's heatshield, and the ship only heads home if its reentry and landing systems check out healthy.
If both catches work, it's the first full recovery of an orbital launch system.
Watching live, or catching the replay?
For the first time, SpaceX plans to bring both stages home to the tower. Super Heavy, the first V3 booster to try a catch, should be back in the nutes after liftoff. The ship then deploys 26 Starlink V3 satellites, circles Earth about 14 times at roughly 275 km, and returns for its own catch after more than 22 hours.
A neat engineering detail: three of those satellites carry cameras to photograph the ship's heatshield, and the ship only heads home if its reentry and landing systems check out healthy.
If both catches work, it's the first full recovery of an orbital launch system.
Watching live, or catching the replay?
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Love the work yall are putting in 🚀
1 of 4 - What do you do when your @NASA_Orion spacecraft spashes down, turns upside down and cannot upright itself? @NASAJohnson Neutral Buoyancy Lab, we can train for that. First - @NASAArtemis III crew makes a plan, huddles up and then ingresses the Orion trainer capsule.
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For those waiting for boat launch viewing tickets for Starship Flight 15, we’ve just secured an additional large boat (Osprey) in Port Isabel.
The departing location is conveniently located down the street from Hopper Haus. You will avoid all traffic that builds up heading out nch and Hopper Haus is within walking distance.
For more info and to book tickets, visit our website: star-fleet.tours/current/
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For those waiting for boat launch viewing tickets for Starship Flight 15, we’ve just secured an additional large boat (Osprey) in Port Isabel.
The departing location is conveniently located down the street from Hopper Haus. You will avoid all traffic that builds up heading out nch and Hopper Haus is within walking distance.
For more info and to book tickets, visit our website: star-fleet.tours/current/
The departing location is conveniently located down the street from Hopper Haus. You will avoid all traffic that builds up heading out nch and Hopper Haus is within walking distance.
For more info and to book tickets, visit our website: star-fleet.tours/current/
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Awesome work @PrincessDeixa
NASA is ready for its next class of astronauts, but space-bound hopefuls will need to move fast. Applications opened Nov. 7 and close at 11:59 p.m. EST on Dec. 3.
It's the agency's first call since 2024, when more than 8,000 people applied and only 10 made the cut. This group could walk on the Moon and help pave the way to Mars.
"The window is open. The mission is waiting." - NASA Deputy Administrator Matt Anderson maxq.app/articles/nasas…
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Glad you are part of the @MaxQApp team
Never thought I would reach it...
Goals are dreams in progress. Sunday, I checked one off by standing inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at @NASAKennedy.
What a view. #PhotoOfTheDay 138 @MaxQApp
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Closest and driest viewing. For Flt 15 we are high and dry with a few spots left at theStarshipStation.com Other camp-lots are under water today. We are dry and capped so will not perk from river pressure (I.e. finding leach ponds or relief veins aka swamp low lands). Two large spots left for big rigs. Please arrive early, day before to maneuver. Lot is packed.
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Before April 1, 1960, no one had ever watched weather from above the weather.
That morning, a Thor-Able rocket lifted TIROS-1 from Launch Complex 17A at Cape Canaveral. The drum-shaped satellite — 42 inches across, 270 pounds, carrying two small television cameras — was the first llite, and the first television image of Earth it sent back that same day showed large-scale cloud formations no ground observer could have assembled.
TIROS-1 worked for just 78 days, but in that short life it returned about 23,000 television images of Earth, proved satellites could survey global weather from space, and provided the first accurate weather forecasts based on data gathered from orbit. Every hurricane satellite image seen today traces back to this Cape Canaveral launch.
Would a forecast without a satellite picture even feel like a forecast anymore?
Photo credit: NASA / TIROS Program
#TalkOfTitusville #FloridaHistory #NASA #CapeCanaveral #WeatherSatellite
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Can someone in or going to Starbase do me a favor?
Can you take a photo through your windshield of Starship in the distance? With the road in front of you visible.
I need it for a reference lol
Can you take a photo through your windshield of Starship in the distance? With the road in front of you visible.
I need it for a reference lol
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Fifteen minutes that changed the Space Coast forever.
On the morning of May 5, 1961, Alan B. Shepard Jr. climbed into the Freedom 7 capsule atop a Redstone rocket at Launch Pad 5, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
The flight was short and steep: the Redstone shut down 2 minutes and at 5 minutes 11 seconds Freedom 7 peaked at 116 miles up. Shepard got about five minutes of weightlessness, then rode the capsule down to a splashdown in the Atlantic, where the carrier USS Lake Champlain recovered him. Total flight time: 15 minutes, 22 seconds.
Freedom 7 had been readied for flight right here on the Space Coast — Mercury capsules were received and checked out in Hangar S at the Cape before heading to the pad. The capsule itself is preserved today by the Smithsonian.
Fifteen minutes — and the Cape was never quite the same again. Where were you — or where was your family — on May 5, 1961?
Photo: NASA (public domain) — Freedom 7 lifts off from Cape Canaveral, May 5, 1961
#TalkOfTitusville #FloridaHistory #Freedom7 #AlanShepard #ProjectMercury #CapeCanaveral
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Starbase Louisiana Update: Roads & bridges
The Center Square reports a signed contract allowing up to $6.8 million in state-funded payments to Royal Engineers & Consultants for transportation work tied to SpaceX.
The scope includes road/bridge assessments, traffic studies, design, nation, property-acquisition assistance and construction oversight.
Important distinctions:
• $6.8M is a ceiling for Royal’s services—not an announced road-construction budget.
• No specific roads or bridges are named, and no overall infrastructure budget is set.
• This agreement requires no SpaceX reimbursement; the broader cost split remains unsettled.
• DOTD must approve a budget and issue a written notice to proceed before billing. The report doesn’t establish whether that happened or any payments were made.
Separately, DOTD is evaluating potential LA 82 improvements—not announcing construction.
The report is new today; the signing date isn’t given. Royal’s selection was reported Oct. 29.
The Center Square reports a signed contract allowing up to $6.8 million in state-funded payments to Royal Engineers & Consultants for transportation work tied to SpaceX.
The scope includes road/bridge assessments, traffic studies, design, nation, property-acquisition assistance and construction oversight.
Important distinctions:
• $6.8M is a ceiling for Royal’s services—not an announced road-construction budget.
• No specific roads or bridges are named, and no overall infrastructure budget is set.
• This agreement requires no SpaceX reimbursement; the broader cost split remains unsettled.
• DOTD must approve a budget and issue a written notice to proceed before billing. The report doesn’t establish whether that happened or any payments were made.
Separately, DOTD is evaluating potential LA 82 improvements—not announcing construction.
The report is new today; the signing date isn’t given. Royal’s selection was reported Oct. 29.
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Here in Florida, it’ll be worth finding a spot with a clear view to the south late Friday afternoon. If the skies here are clear, and if @SpaceX launches at the right time from Texas, we'll see a show as Starship passes by.
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Semper Fi! 🇺🇸🇺🇸
🦅 Happy 251st birthday, Marines!
John Glenn was a Marine aviator before becoming the first American to orbit Earth.
Semper Fi to every Marine and service member who's served. Add someone you're thankful for to our Veterans Wall 👇
maxq.app/veterans?v=2
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So well deserved. In April the Artemis II crew traveled 252,756 miles from Earth, breaking Apollo 13's 1970 distance record, and Jeremy Hansen became the first Canadian to fly around the Moon. x.com/airandspace/st…
Announcing the winner of the Museum’s 2027 Michael Collins Trophy for Current Achievement: The Artemis II Mission Team
@NASA's Artemis II mission captured the attention of the world in April 2026 as commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, and mission specialists Christina traveled around the Moon and back — the first crewed deep space mission in over 50 years.
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Good morning. Tonight Saturn's moon Iapetus swings to its farthest point east of the planet. It's two-toned, with one hemisphere dark and the other bright. Saturn is highest around 9 PM, so grab a telescope and say hi. 🔭
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