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SpaceX Finally Recovers Starship After 24 Days of Tugging It Through Rough Waters

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Starship 40 is in calmer waters and awaiting inspection by SpaceX engineers.

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Washington TimesWashington Times
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SpaceX recovers its Starship launch vehicle from Indian Ocean after weeks at sea

More than three weeks after its reentry to Earth, the SpaceX Starship launch vehicle has been successfully towed to an island in the Indian Ocean.

·Washington, United States
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SEE IT: SpaceX releases footage of Starship FLOATING off Christmas Island #shorts #spacex #foxnews

SpaceX’s Starship is spotted floating off the coast of Christmas Island after spending about 24 days at sea. The rocket launched July 24 for SpaceX’s 13th flight test, which included the first suborbital deployment of new Starlink satellites. #fox #foxnews #media #breakingnews #us #usa #new #news #breaking #spacex #starship #elonmusk #musk #space #rocket #starlink #satellites...

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SpaceX Finally Recovers Starship After 24 Days of Tugging It Through Rough Waters

Starship 40 is in calmer waters and awaiting inspection by SpaceX engineers.

·New York, United States
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L'EnerGeekL'EnerGeek

Elon Musk Admitted that "It Wasn't Well Announced": Eleven Days Later, Ship 40 Was Towed Intact to Christmas Island

SpaceX announced on August 18, 2026 that its recovery team had managed to guide Ship 40 to a location off Christmas Island, Australia's Indian Ocean territory, after about 24 days at sea. According to a Space Daily article, the upper Starship floor remains afloat, it is neither docked nor returned to Texas. A team of SpaceX engineers must go to the site to examine the ship in calmer waters, before an attempt to return to Starbase. It is a first …

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Gizmodo broke the news in New York, United States on Thursday, August 20, 2026.
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