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  • December 12, 2024
Watch SpaceX Starship Flight 6 Crash in Stunning Buoycam Footage (Video)

Watch SpaceX Starship Flight 6 Crash in Stunning Buoycam Footage (Video)

A camera on a buoy in the Indian Ocean has captured the end of SpaceX’s latest Starship test flight, and it’s a sight to behold.

That suborbital flight, launched from SpaceX’s Starbase facility in South Texas on November 19sent the 50 meter high upper stage of the Starship mega rocket halfway around the world, towards a part of the Indian Ocean off the northwestern coast of Australia.

The spacecraft survived The Earth’s atmosphere in one piece, maneuvering to a soft, controlled splash. And the buoycam captured this dramatic action, as SpaceX revealed in a X post on November 22.

The upper stage of SpaceX’s sixth Starship megarocket will crash into the Indian Ocean on November 19, 2024. (Image credit: SpaceX)

“Starship lands burning and crashes in Indian Ocean,” SpaceX wrote in the post, which contained 23 seconds of buoycam footage.