{"id":81351,"date":"2026-11-15T07:54:48","date_gmt":"2026-11-15T12:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/15\/spacexs-starship-returns-to-launch-pad-from-orbit-video\/"},"modified":"2026-11-15T07:54:48","modified_gmt":"2026-11-15T12:54:48","slug":"spacexs-starship-returns-to-launch-pad-from-orbit-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/15\/spacexs-starship-returns-to-launch-pad-from-orbit-video\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX\u2019s Starship returns to launch pad from orbit \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The top part of SpaceX\u2019s megarocket Starship <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2026\/nov\/13\/spacex-starship-megarocket-blasts-off-earth-orbit\">returned<\/a> to its Texas launch tower on Saturday, a milestone in the company\u2019s efforts to make the craft suitable for human spaceflight. Starship\u2019s 15th test flight was envisioned as a historic double-catch mission, where all parts of the rocket would be returned intact, but the lower booster section malfunctioned and activated an automated abort, exploding over the ocean<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2026\/nov\/14\/spacex-starship-double-catch\"><strong>SpaceX\u2019s Starship returns to launch pad from orbit in victory for company<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/video\/2026\/nov\/15\/spacex-starship-returns-launch-pad-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The top part of SpaceX\u2019s megarocket Starship returned to its Texas launch tower on Saturday, a milestone in the company\u2019s efforts to make the craft suitable for human spaceflight. Starship\u2019s 15th test flight was envisioned as a historic double-catch mission, where all parts of the rocket would be returned intact, but the lower booster section &#8230; <a title=\"SpaceX\u2019s Starship returns to launch pad from orbit \u2013 video\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/15\/spacexs-starship-returns-to-launch-pad-from-orbit-video\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about SpaceX\u2019s Starship returns to launch pad from orbit \u2013 video\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}