TL;DR
SpaceX now has a date for the first attempt to catch a Starship upper stage: its launch chief named Friday, Nov. 13 as the target for Starship Flight 15, when the launch tower's giant mechanical arms will try to catch the rocket's upper stage, the ship itself, for the first time, along with the booster below it. The date was spoken on stage and relayed by reporters, and SpaceX has not yet posted a mission page. If both stages come home to the tower, Starship would be the first orbital rocket recovered whole, and a ship that lands in the arms instead of the ocean could be reused within hours. That turnaround is the foundation under cheaper launches, weekly flights and the fuel stations Starship needs to reach the Moon. To see our odds on the catch, the reflight and the weekly launch pace, plus the timeline of breakthroughs that leads there, subscribe.
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