Starship launch and Super Heavy landing, 16 January 2025

A Super Heavy rocket booster launched a Starship upper stage for SpaceX’s seventh flight test of a fully integrated Starship, from Starbase, Texas, on 16 January 2025, at 22:37 UTC (16:37 CST).
According to SpaceX, the flight test launched “a new generation ship with significant upgrades, attempt Starship’s first payload deployment test, fly multiple reentry experiments geared towards ship catch and reuse, and launch and return the Super Heavy booster”.
Credit: SpaceX
SpaceX Starship Flight Test
Super Heavy launches Starship

[coltendavison]

Beautiful catch of the booster and unfortunate loss of the ship

[dissaid]

Great job team! Sad about losing the ship.

[ShokkuKyushu]

@3:00 Interesting, I thought the
grid fins were the load bearing parts.

[valinormons]

Amazing stuff. They'll get it down.

[victorpaula]

Pay attention to the Starship 1:10, it seems like part of the termal protection is coming off.

[FnAstroBoi]

0:56 anomaly

Edit: never mind it was a fuel leak

[hamsandwich]

Elon musk is such an unbelievably exciting and larger than life human being just like the Don.

[Alyoshenka-lq]

🇺🇸Made in USA🇺🇸Made in USA🇺🇸Made in USA🇺🇸Made in USA🇺🇸Made in USA🇺🇸Made in USA🇺🇸

[yuroeuaggelionsinaga]

So SpaceX "Starship" defeated Blue Origin "New Glenn" on booster recovery competition,

But Blue Origin "New Glenn" defeated "SpaceX Starship" on orbital competition.

Well guys, that's all

[crazago]

Anyone see that peice flapping around?

[unsatisfiedfans]

Another partial success, partial failure for Starship

[jasoncampbell]

Over complicated BS. Amused buy a drink machine. Why did the Saturn Rocket and the space shuttle have such simplistic designs and computers ? Because it made them as close to fail safe as possible.

[crazago]

At 1 min a peice is flapping uncomfortably. Is this what caused the fault?