SpaceX launches upgraded Starship on debut test flight 🚀

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]SpaceX launched its 12th Starship on an uncrewed test flight on Friday evening from Texas.

[00:00:07]Ignition.

[00:00:13]The debut flight of the Starship V3 came as a high-stakes trial run of major upgrades to its next-generation spacecraft. Starship released 20 mock satellites and two actual satellites to scan the spacecraft's heat shield and transmit data to operators on the ground. After a controlled splashdown in the Indian Ocean, the Starship exploded.

[00:00:35]The key milestone comes after months of testing delays and 3 weeks ahead of SpaceX's public listing, which has the potential to become the first US market debut above $1 trillion US.

[00:00:48]There There you go, successful.