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SpaceX Starship launch successful, but a booster went boom instead of sticking the landing.

The Verge •
November 14, 2026 • 12:00 AM
• By Sean Hollister
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[Media: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XM0lpVlvo0] NASASpaceFlight (below) has multiple angles of the booster explosion if you scrub back. Today was supposed to be the first time in history that an entire orbital launch system would be recovered, but that milestone will have to wait. The Starship itself has already deployed 22 payloads though, and it may still be able to return to SpaceX’s Starbase.

SpaceX Starship launch successful, but a booster went boom instead of sticking the landing.

NASASpaceFlight (below) has multiple angles of the booster explosion if you scrub back. Today was supposed to be the first time in history that an entire orbital launch system would be recovered, but that milestone will have to wait. The Starship itself has already deployed 22 payloads though, and it may still be able to return to SpaceX’s Starbase.

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