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SpaceX’s Starship makes history with first-ever catch by launch tower after spaceflight

Verified: 22 outlets in 14 countries have reported this story since Nov 14, 4 of them from the United States.

📍 Kathmandu, NP·🕐 23m ago·22 outlets

Kathmandu, November 15 Starship 15, the most powerful rocket developed by Elon Musk’s space company SpaceX, has accomplished something no rocket has achieved before. Launched from Starbase on November 14, the rocket reached orbit and deployed 26 Starlink V3 satellites. It completed 14 orbits around Earth and remained in orbit for approximately 22 hours. On…

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Onlinekhabar English· National ↗The Jerusalem Post· National ↗UPI· News agency ↗
The story so far · 27 reports · · 14 countries✓ Verified Nov 14, 12:32 AM UTC

4 outlets from the United States, where the story is: Ars Technica, Phys.org, Yahoo News and 1 more · how we count

  1. Nov 14, 12:02 AM UTCFirst report
    SpaceX's Starship enters Earth's orbit, but booster catch abortednst.com.my ↗
  2. Nov 14, 12:32 AM UTC+30 min
    SpaceX launches Starship into orbit, aborts booster catch attemptupi.com ↗
  3. Verified: a second independent outlet reported itNov 14, 12:32 AM UTC · +30 min
  4. Nov 14, 6:05 AM UTC+6 h
    SpaceX's Starship enters Earth's orbit, but booster catch abortedchannelnewsasia.com ↗
  6. Nov 15, 2:27 AM UTC+26 h
    SpaceX catches Starship for first time after return from orbitnst.com.my (again) ↗
  7. Nov 15, 2:54 AM UTC+27 h
    Baby, She's Back! SpaceX Catches a Starship From Orbit for First Timeuniversetoday.com ↗
  8. Nov 15, 7:16 AM UTC+31 h
    SpaceX Starship returns to landing pad from orbitbdnews24.com ↗
  9. Nov 15, 7:38 AM UTC+32 h· you’re reading this
    SpaceX’s Starship makes history with first-ever catch by launch tower after spaceflightenglish.onlinekhabar.com ↗
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[Claude] Both other reports cover the same Starship tower catch as Report 1, and nothing in them conflicts with it.

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