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Starship Development Thread November 2025 (sh.itjust.works)
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SpaceX Starship page

FAQ

  1. When next launch? (Flight 12) NET 2026.
  2. When previous launch? (Flight 11) Starship flight 11 launched on 2025-10-13 at 23:23 UTC.
  3. What was the result? All mission objectives fulfilled. Ship performs successful landing burn and splashdown, despite intentional missing tiles on heatshield. Second successful deployment of Starlink simulators. Booster successfully tested a 13-5-3 engine landing profile.

Previous Flights

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  • Flight 1: S24 and B7. First full stack launch, RUD before stage separation.
  • Flight 2: S25 and B9. Successful stage separation, booster RUD during boostback burn, ship RUD shortly prior to scheduled SECO.
  • Flight 3: S28 and B10. Booster performs a successful boostback burn, but experiences RUD during landing burn. Ship makes it past SECO, but loses attitude control and is destroyed on reentry.
  • Flight 4: S29 and B11. First successful booster water landing. Ship survives reentry despite burn-through on forward flap, and performs a successful water landing.
  • Flight 5: S30 and B12. First booster catch with chopsticks. Ship performs successful water landing.
  • Flight 6: S31 and B13. Booster offshore divert due to damage to catch tower during launch. Ship performs successful water landing.
  • Flight 7: S33 and B14-1. First V2 Ship launch. Harmonic oscillation on ship causes RUD before SECO. Booster is caught by chopsticks.
  • Flight 8: S34 and B15-1. Engine failure on ship causes RUD before SECO. Booster is caught by chopsticks.
  • Flight 9: S35 and B14-2. First booster reflight. Ship makes it past SECO, but loses attitude control and is destroyed on reentry. Booster RUD upon landing burn startup prior to planned splashdown.
  • Flight 10: S37 and B16. All mission objectives fulfilled. First V2 ship to make it through reentry to landing burn and splashdown. First successful deployment of Starlink simulators. Booster successfully tested landing without one centre engine, using an engine on the middle ring to compensate.
  • Flight 11: S38 and B15-2. All mission objectives fulfilled. Ship performs successful landing burn and splashdown, despite intentional missing tiles on heatshield. Second successful deployment of Starlink simulators. Booster successfully tested a 13-5-3 engine landing profile.

Quick Links

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Starship Dev October | Starship Dev September | Starship Dev August | Flight 10 launch thread | Starship Dev July | Starship Dev June | Starship Dev May

Official SpaceX Starship Update Video (2024-04-06)

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Vehicle Status

*As of 2025-10-21

Ship Location Status Comment
S20 Rocket Garden Pending scrapping?
Test Tank 16 Sanchez Resting Cryo tested four times between July and September. Sliding plates added to the catch points on Jan 27th. Moved to Sanchez Mar 15th.
S38 Indian Ocean Destroyed Parts spotted in December. Nosecone stacked on payload bay as of Mar 28th. Rolls to Massey's Jul 28th. Cryo tested Jul 30th. Rolls back to Megabay 2 Aug 1st. Aft flap installed Aug 25th. Static fired Sep 22nd. Launched on Oct 13th, destroyed on impact following a successful landing burn and splashdown.
S39.1 Megabay 2 Assembly Parts spotted (Aug 25th)
S39 Megabay 2 Stacking Parts spotted (Apr 9th). Forward flaps installed July 29th and 31st. Stacking began Oct 20th.
S40 Starfactory Assembly Parts spotted (Apr 10th).
S41 Starfactory Assembly Parts spotted (May 10th).
S42 Starfactory Assembly Parts spotted (Jul 4th).
S43 Starfactory Assembly Parts spotted (Jul 4th).
S44 Starfactory Assembly Parts spotted (Jul 4th).
S45 Starfactory Assembly
Booster Location Status Comment
B12 Rocket Garden Pending scrapping? Cryo x2, Static fire Jul 15th. Full stack cryo tests Sep 23rd and Oct 7th. FTS installed Oct 9th. Launched as IFT-5 on Oct 13, returned to launch site for successful chopstick catch. Moved to Megabay 1 Oct 15th. Moved to Rocket Garden Sep 27th.
B15-2 Gulf of Mexico Destroyed Stacked from July to September 2024. Methane tank cryo test Dec 27th, full cryo test Dec 28th. Static fired Feb 9th. Launched and landed Mar 6th. Static fired Sep 7th. Moved to Rocket Garden Sep 26th. Launched on Oct 13th, destroyed on impact following a successful landing burn.
B16 Gulf of Mexico Destroyed Stacking completed by Dec 26th 2024. Cryo tested Feb 28th. Static fired Jun 6th. FTS potentially installed Jun 18th. Hot staging adapter removed Jun 19th. FTS installed Aug 17th. Rolled out to launch site Aug 21st. Launched on 2025-08-26, destroyed on impact following a successful landing burn.
B17 Rocket Garden Pending engine install Parts spotted. First two sections moved to Megabay 1 Jan 4th. Fully stacked by Apr 7th. Cryo tested Apr 9th.
B18.1 / Test Tank 17 Massey's Cryo testing Test article for Booster v3. Parts spotted Feb 24th, Apr 21. Cryo tests start Jun 2nd and 3rd, continue until tank bursts Sep 18th.
B18.3 Massey's Testing Parts spotted Aug 27th. Moved to Massey's Sep 20th.
B18 Megabay 1 Stacking Parts spotted May 19th.
B19 Starfactory Stacking Parts spotted Aug 11th.

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[Meta] !spacex@sh.itjust.works turns two years old, call for moderators (sh.itjust.works)
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🎉Happy 2-year-anniversary, folks!🎉

Thank you to everyone who has posted, commented, and voted over the past two years. The community would not be what it is without you!

Thanks also to the sh.itjust.works admins for keeping this server running smoothly. This community could not exist without you.

This community has had a bit of mod turnover since we started, and I'm looking to grow the team a bit. Would anyone be willing to help out?

This is also an opportune time to solicit feedback and suggest changes. Any general feedback or suggestions?

Thank you all for participating in this community, and here's to the next two years!

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SpaceX progress on Starship Pad realignment for the future (www.nasaspaceflight.com)
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Florida annual launch record broken with late-night Starlink flight (spaceflightnow.com)
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Starlink Group 6-87 launch bulletin (sh.itjust.works)
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Starlink Group 6-87 launch out of SLC-40 in Florida is currently scheduled for 2025-11-11 03:21:30 UTC or 22:21:30 local time (EST). Booster 1096-3 to land on Just Read The Instructions.

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Starlink Group 10-51 launch bulletin (sh.itjust.works)
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Starlink Group 10-51 launch out of LC-39A in Florida is currently scheduled for 2025-11-09 08:10:00 UTC or 03:10 local time (EST). Booster 1069-28 to land on A Shortfall of Gravitas.

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Starlink Group 11-14 launch bulletin (sh.itjust.works)
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Starlink Group 11-14 launch out of SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California is currently scheduled for 2025-11-06 21:13:50 UTC, or 2025-11-06 13:13:50 local time (PST). Booster 1093-8 to land on Of Course I Still Love You.

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Starlink Group 6-81 launch bulletin (sh.itjust.works)
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Starlink Group 6-81 launch out of SLC-40 in Florida is currently scheduled for 2025-11-06 01:31:10 UTC or 20:31 local time (EST). Booster 1094-5 to land on Just Read The Instructions.

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[Eric Berger] Elon Musk on data centers in orbit: “SpaceX will be doing this” (arstechnica.com)
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After Ars wrote a story on the potential of autonomous assembly to construct large data centers in space, Musk responded on X by saying that Starlink satellites could be used for this purpose.

“Simply scaling up Starlink V3 satellites, which have high speed laser links would work,” he said on the social media site X. “SpaceX will be doing this.”

Musk’s interest in space-based data centers significantly raises the profile of the nascent industry. Proponents of the idea say the advantages are clear: free, limitless power from the Sun and none of the messy environmental costs of building these facilities on Earth (where opposition is starting to grow). Critics say it is economically impractical to build these facilities in space and that supporters underestimate the technology needed to make it work.

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Starship Block 3 and HLS: The path to get back to the Moon - NASASpaceFlight.com (www.nasaspaceflight.com)
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[Jeff Foust] Semiconductor startup to fly payloads on Falcon 9 boosters (spacenews.com)
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Article textJeff Foust

4–6 minutes

WASHINGTON — A startup plans to test technology to produce semiconductors in space on a series of Falcon 9 launches using payloads attached to the rocket’s booster.

Besxar announced Oct. 28 it signed a launch agreement with SpaceX to fly payloads on 12 Falcon 9 missions that could begin before the end of the year. The companies did not disclose terms of the agreement.

Unlike typical Falcon 9 customers, Besxar will not place payloads into orbit. Instead, each of the 12 launches will carry two “Fabship” payloads attached to the boosters, which will return to Earth with the boosters when they land less than 10 minutes after liftoff.

The payloads, each about the size of a microwave oven, are designed to test systems Besxar is developing to produce semiconductor wafers in the vacuum of space.

“I’d like to believe we’re taking a bit of a different approach,” Ashley Pilipiszyn, Besxar’s founder and chief executive, said in an interview. “One of the things that we realized is companies like SpaceX have figured out launch and reentry really well and on a repeatable basis.”

Those initial Fabships, which the company calls “Clipper-class” payloads, are primarily intended to test whether semiconductor materials can safely launch and land.

“This is pretty much the ultimate egg drop challenge,” she said. “We wanted to ensure that not only could we get wafers to and from space and do all these wonderful things with them and do deposition, but can we actually reliably bring them back without warpage, cracking, anything like that.”

Booking a dozen flights, Pilipiszyn said, enables the company to rapidly iterate on the Fabship design, including reusing hardware. She compared the Clipper-class payloads to SpaceX’s “hopper” prototype for Starship, which tested takeoff and landing technologies.

“That is really, I think, a different way of thinking about the space economy,” she said. “It’s not just price per kilogram, it’s how many times you’re launching and what your turnaround time is.”

The 12 missions are expected to take place over the next year. Pilipiszyn said she expects the company to learn enough from the series to move into a new phase of missions but did not disclose details.

While many space manufacturing ventures aim to exploit microgravity, Besxar is focused instead on vacuum conditions. That, she said, could enable the purity required for semiconductor fabrication without the enormous expense of recreating such conditions on Earth.

Pilipiszyn noted that semiconductor manufacturer TSMC plans to spend $50 billion on a new fabrication plant for advanced chips. Much of that cost, she said, comes from the equipment and processes needed to maintain ultra-clean environments, something that space could provide naturally.

“The vacuum of space is really key for us,” she said. “Microgravity is a benefit. It’s not like it does anything negative, but it’s not the core offering.”

Besxar, based in Washington, D.C., has “more missions on contract than employees,” Pilipiszyn said. The company has raised an undisclosed amount from “strategic angel” investors as well as institutional backers. That funding, she said, is enough to complete the Clipper-class series of missions on SpaceX launches.

“We view ourselves as an American semiconductor manufacturing company that happens to work in space, versus a space company as we typically think about them,” she said. Besxar’s goal, she added, is to use space to improve semiconductor manufacturing and keep the U.S. competitive with China.

“One of the things we’re really striving to champion is that in-space manufacturing is American manufacturing and really just part of this larger supply chain,” she said.

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Bandwagon-4 launch thread (sh.itjust.works)
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| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2025-11-02 05:09:59 | |

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| | Scheduled for (local) | 2025-11-02, 01:09:59 (EDT) | | Launch site | SLC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA | | Booster | 1091-3 | | Landing | Landing Zone 2 | | Payload | Multiple | | Customers | Multiple | | Mission success criteria | Successful delivery of payloads to LEO |

Webcasts

| Stream | Link | |

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| | Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSA__Vsotgo | | Spaceflight Now | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wScmezQZ5NA | | NASASpaceflight | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-gB0HPhOME | | The Launch Pad | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aknpX0qniIM | | SpaceX | https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1984847018024734762 | | The Space Devs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zgN_ywU81Q |

Stats

Sourced from NextSpaceflight and r/SpaceX:

☑️ 65th launch from SLC-40 this year

☑️ 3 days, 12:34:39 turnaround for this pad

☑️ 15th landing on LZ-2

☑️ 19 days, 3:11:59 turnaround for booster B1091

☑️ 534th Falcon family booster landing, 545th Falcon recovery attempt

☑️ 140th Falcon 9 launch this year, 558th overall

☑️ 145th SpaceX mission this year, 585th overall (excluding Starship hop tests)

☑️ 145th SpaceX launch this year, 594th overall (including Starship hop tests)

Mission info

Bandwagon-4

Bandwagon-4 is a dedicated rideshare mission by SpaceX. SpaceX’s SmallSat Rideshare Program provides small satellite operators with regularly scheduled, dedicated Falcon 9 rideshare missions to mid-inclination orbits for ESPA class payloads for as low as $300,000 per mission, which includes up to 50kg of payload mass.

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Starship Failures Could Cost NASA The Moon - China Already Winning (www.youtube.com)
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SpaceX teases simplified Starship as alarms sound over Moon landing delays (arstechnica.com)
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Starlink Group 11-23 launch bulletin (sh.itjust.works)
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Starlink Group 11-23 launch out of SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California is currently scheduled for 2025-10-31 20:41:10 UTC, or 2025-10-31 13:41:10 local time (PDT). Booster 1063-29 to land on Of Course I Still Love You.

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SpaceX ramps up Starship preparations at Florida's Roberts Road - NASASpaceFlight.com (www.nasaspaceflight.com)
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Starbase Pad 1 demolition begins for Next-Gen upgrades - NASASpaceFlight.com (www.nasaspaceflight.com)
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Starlink Group 10-37 launch bulletin (sh.itjust.works)
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Starlink Group 10-37 launch out of SLC-40 in Florida is currently scheduled for ~~2025-10-29 16:16 UTC or 12:16 local time (EDT)~~. Booster 1083-15 to land on Just Read The Instructions.

Launch pushed to 2025-10-29 16:35:20 UTC or 12:35:20 local time (EDT).

Webcasts:

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Starlink Group 11-21 launch bulletin (sh.itjust.works)
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Starlink Group 11-21 launch out of SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California is currently scheduled for 2025-10-28 00:43:49 UTC, or 2025-10-27 17:43:49 local time (PDT). Booster 1082-17 to land on Of Course I Still Love You.

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Starlink Group 10-21 launch bulletin (sh.itjust.works)
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Starlink Group 10-21 launch out of SLC-40 in Florida is currently scheduled for 2025-10-26 14:40:40 UTC or 10:40:40 local time (EDT). Booster 1077-24 to land on A Shortfall Of Gravitas.

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Starlink Group 11-12 launch bulletin (sh.itjust.works)
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Starlink Group 11-12 launch out of SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California is currently scheduled for 2025-10-25 14:20:50 UTC, or 2025-10-25 07:20:50 local time (PDT). Booster 1081-19 to land on Of Course I Still Love You.

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Starbase Pad 1 ends an era, enters preparations for the next phase - NASASpaceFlight.com (www.nasaspaceflight.com)
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SPAINSAT New Generation II (and farewell, B1076-22) (sh.itjust.works)
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| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2025-10-24 01:30:00 | |

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| | Scheduled for (local) | 2025-10-24, 21:30:00 (EDT) | | Launch site | SLC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA | | Booster | B1076-22 | | Landing | No, booster intentionally expended | | Payload | SPAINSAT New Generation II | | Customer | Hisdesat | | Target orbit | Geostationary Transfer Orbit |

Webcasts

| Stream | Link | |

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| | Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yc38EAnxco | | Spaceflight Now | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrh3NcHcePI | | NASASpaceflight | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McPj0d75oew | | Everyday Astronaut | https://www.youtube.com/@EverydayAstronaut/streams | | The Launch Pad | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEyjj0Au-14 | | SpaceX | https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1981529714905813199 | | The Space Devs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTk_BkDJ4FI |

Stats

Sourced from NextSpaceflight and r/SpaceX:

☑️ 62nd launch from SLC-40 this year

☑️ 4 days, 7:50:20 turnaround for this pad

☑️ 244 days, 10:11:00 hours turnaround for B1076

☑️ 134th Falcon 9 mission of 2025, 552st overall

☑️ 139th SpaceX mission of 2025, 579th overall (excluding Starship hops)

☑️ 139th SpaceX launch of 2025, 588th overall (including Starship hops)

Mission info

SPAINSAT New Generation II (SpainSat-NG II, XTAR-NG2, XTAR-LANT-NG)

SPAINSAT NG is Hisdesat's largest project since its foundation. Its technological complexity and strategic relevance will position the company as an international benchmark in satellite communications. The new Spainsat NG generation will multiply by 16 times the capacity in X and Ka military band with respect to the current devices and will add a new payload in UHF band. In addition, it will operate with active X-band antennas in receive and transmit. Pioneers in the European aerospace sector, each of them will be assigned 16 different areas of operation to perform their coverage services with electronic configuration.

The SpainSat NG I & II will replace the current SpainSat and XTAR-EUR and will incorporate the latest technological advances in communications to reinforce their capabilities, security levels and resilience. They will have a useful life of about 15 years, which means that they will be fully operational until the 2040 threshold.

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Starlink Group 11-5 launch bulletin (sh.itjust.works)
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Starlink Group 11-5 launch out of SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California is currently scheduled for 2025-10-22 14:16:20 UTC, or 2025-10-22 07:16:20 local time (PDT). Booster 1075-21 to land on Of Course I Still Love You.

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[Stephen Clark] Satellite operators will soon join airlines in using Starlink in-flight Wi-Fi (arstechnica.com)
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