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I synced Starship Flight 1 and Flight 14 to the same SpaceX clock. The left side was April 20, 2023... the first time a fully integrated Starship ever left the ground. The goal that day was basically to just clear the tower. And it did. Then engines started dropping... out. Starship never separated from the booster. The vehicle started tumbling, and SpaceX intentionally blew it up about 4 minutes after liftoff. The highest altitude reached was ~39 km that day. The right side was today September 28, 2026... flight 14 launching from Pad 2 at Starbase. When you pause both flights around the 4-minute mark. Flight 1 is basically gone. Flight 14 has already separated. And for the first time ever, Starship reached Earth orbit, about 275 km up. Then it also deployed 26 Starlink V3 satellites... Starship’s FIRST operational payload delivery. I still remember after Flight 1, people looked at a wrecked pad and a rocket in pieces and said SpaceX was finished. Elon didn’t quit. The SpaceX team didn’t quit. This is what never giving up looks like... SpaceX is such an inspiration for all of humanity.show more

Teslaconomics

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bass.blaster.brad13 days ago

Let’s take a moment to appreciate how improved the graphic overlay is too.

𝔾𝕣𝕖𝕖𝕟_𝔼𝕝𝕖𝕞𝕖𝕟𝕥12 days ago

F. 14 almost jumped out of the pad. I guess it hated the pad.

JGreene12 days ago

It lept off that pad while carrying 26 V3 Starlinks: 2000kg each. That’s 52,000kg, or just over 57 US tons. A fully loaded 18 wheeler is 40 US tons. The plan is to launch 60 starlinks per launch (over 132 tons). The record for biggest thing ever? Skylab, at 84.3 tons. Whoa.

P.F Strawson12 days ago

Hahaha! Flight #1 took forever to jump off the pad! No wonder it dug such enormous damage!

G Sunshine🌅🕊️13 days ago

Beautiful Take-off Impressive💪💥🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀❤️❤️❤️❤️👏👏👏👏👏👏

Joy Bunch13 days ago

That is so incredible thank you for sharing 🇺🇸🙏

Dan | Owner, not influencer12 days ago

Clearing the tower to reaching orbit in 14 flights. The side-by-side says it all. I've downloaded the Visit-Starbase app, because Flight 15 is the one I want to see in person.

Cozy Polarbear13 days ago

That was cool, thanks

B Franklin12 days ago

This s cool

@BobbiSmith613 days ago

Just amazing 🚀🔥

helen859013 days ago

Muy bien .El SR MUSK ES UN GENIO..MIS FELICITACIONES PARA EL Y TODO SU EQUIPO.SON TODOS UNOS CRAK.😀👍👍🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

محمد بن حمد12 days ago

The first minute

Paul Starship12 days ago

Commentary on 1 was much more exciting though

Jerry C11 days ago

Flight 1 - they said prior to launch they’d consider it a success to clear the tower and exceed expectations if it made it through MaxQ.

Lindley.12 days ago

Beautiful Appreciated 🤩👍

Andrew 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇷12 days ago

Amazing progress. Absolutely insane. 👏

WAHNOPAHZHI12 days ago

flight 1 was so epic

Justin Thyme11 days ago

But why?

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