{"id":2000132288,"date":"2026-11-14T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T10:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/?p=2000132288"},"modified":"2026-11-14T12:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T10:38:14","slug":"spacex-launches-15th-starship-flight-test-super-heavy-booster-splashes-down-in-gulf-of-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/spacex-launches-15th-starship-flight-test-super-heavy-booster-splashes-down-in-gulf-of-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches 15th Starship flight test, Super Heavy booster splashes down in Gulf of Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The rocket lifted off from SpaceX’s Starbase facility in the U.S. state of Texas at about 4:48 p.m. Central Time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The mission marked the company’s first planned attempt to catch both the Super Heavy booster and the Starship spacecraft using the launch tower’s mechanical arms during a single flight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After stage separation, the booster was diverted from its planned return to the launch site and made an offshore splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SpaceX launched its giant Starship rocket on its 15th flight test on Friday (Nov. 13), but the Super Heavy booster failed to return to the launch site for a planned catch by the launch tower’s mechanical arms and instead splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico. (Reuters)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SpaceX launched its giant Starship rocket on its 15th flight test on Friday, but the Super Heavy booster failed to return to the launch site for a planned catch by the launch tower’s mechanical arms and instead splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000132289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"archived_slugs":[],"footnotes":"","igh_game_id":0},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-2000132288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-technology","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80,"twitter_handle":""}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80,"twitter_handle":""}],"featured_image":{"id":2000132289,"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/11\/6af7b076e4b0f8c5b413b8fb.jpg","alt":"","caption":"SpaceX launched its giant Starship rocket on its 15th flight test on Friday (Nov. 13), but the Super Heavy booster failed to return to the launch site for a planned catch by the launch tower's mechanical arms and instead splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico. (Reuters)","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":1200,"height":827,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/11\/6af7b076e4b0f8c5b413b8fb-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/11\/6af7b076e4b0f8c5b413b8fb-300x207.jpg","width":300,"height":207},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/11\/6af7b076e4b0f8c5b413b8fb-768x529.jpg","width":768,"height":529},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/11\/6af7b076e4b0f8c5b413b8fb-1024x706.jpg","width":1024,"height":706},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/11\/6af7b076e4b0f8c5b413b8fb.jpg","width":1200,"height":827}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000132288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000132288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000132288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2000132290,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000132288\/revisions\/2000132290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000132289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000132288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000132288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000132288"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=2000132288"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=2000132288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}