SpaceX conducted Flight Test 12 of its reusable Starship Version 3 (V3) rocket from Starbase in South Texas. The mission successfully launched 22 Starlink satellite dummies, one of which was equipped with an external camera to capture views of the rocket’s heat shield from space.
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The SpaceX Starship V3 Set for Liftoff Today: What to Know
0:00 Starship V3 Design Overhaul & Size Upgrades
0:21 Super Heavy Booster Changes & Reusable Hot-Stage Ring
0:53 Upgraded Grid Fins & New Tower Catch Points
1:13 Inside the Rocket: Redesigned Fuel Transfer Tube
1:41 New Raptor 3 Engines & Slimmer Shielding
2:01 Starship Upper Stage Upgrades & Docking Ports
2:24 Supercharged PEZ-Dispenser Payload Bay
2:56 Starship Flight 12 Liftoff & Launch Ascent
4:19 Preparing for Hot-Staging Sequence
4:52 Engine Dropout and Hot-Stage Separation
5:46 Super Heavy Booster Issues & Early Gulf Shutdown
6:17 Starship Single Engine Out Operations
7:23 Super Heavy Booster Gulf Descent & Impact
8:27 Starlink Satellite Dummy Deployment in Space
9:28 “Dodger Dogs” Free-Flyer Camera Views of Heat Shield
10:43 Starship Atmospheric Reentry & Plasma Buildup
11:00 Landing Flip Maneuver & Indian Ocean Splashdown
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@CNET
May 23, 2026 at 5:01 am
Read more about the SpaceX mission on CNET.com : The SpaceX Starship V3 Set for Liftoff Today: What to Know
@masterwatch
May 23, 2026 at 5:17 am
burning hydro carbons out the back of a tube doesn’t seem like the future. It is ok for now because it is doing a job but I can’t see this being the future.
@showlett33
May 23, 2026 at 6:47 am
What can you see being the future?
@yankoaleksandrov
May 23, 2026 at 6:52 am
@showlett33i had the same question
@fsinthechat7604
May 23, 2026 at 7:16 am
the product of the reaction mainly CO2 and Water
@jonathanmay7508
May 23, 2026 at 7:29 am
Unfortunately rn that’s the only way to get into space, once you’re in space there are many alternatives but escaping the gravity well isn’t easy
@krox477
May 23, 2026 at 9:49 am
What would you recommend
@outoftheblue_UK
May 23, 2026 at 5:43 am
The 12th one seems like so many others. More space junk and more debris in the Indian ocean? All to lots of cheering, I wish I was that easily impressed.
@showlett33
May 23, 2026 at 6:49 am
I shudder to think what impresses you
@njpme
May 23, 2026 at 7:46 am
Wow let’s find what impresses a nobody. You’re so important.
@outoftheblue_UK
May 23, 2026 at 9:09 am
@njpme Elon having a manned mission to Mars in 2025, would’ve impressed me. Why would I be impressed by someone who keeps failing to do what they say they will do?
@outoftheblue_UK
May 23, 2026 at 9:13 am
@showlett33 NASA impress me most of the time, because they usually do what they set out to do, in a reasonable time frame.
@showlett33
May 23, 2026 at 9:24 am
@outoftheblue_UK Tell me of a time when NASA weren’t creating space junk and throwing equipment into the sea…
@PK-999
May 23, 2026 at 5:46 am
So it got back to earth and then blew up?
Progress?
@Bling_The_Visual_Creator
May 23, 2026 at 6:09 am
It’s meant to explode as there were no plans to recover it in the ocean.
@12user-u5h
May 23, 2026 at 6:12 am
@Bling_The_Visual_CreatorYou can help “stupid.”
@truejim
May 23, 2026 at 7:15 am
@Bling_The_Visual_Creator I think he meant: it got back to Earth and blew up again, just like the last several.
@Bennettone
May 23, 2026 at 8:32 pm
It’s progress, yes, but they’re over hyping as they didn’t want it to explode and a lot of things went wrong
@Bennettone
May 23, 2026 at 8:33 pm
@Bling_The_Visual_Creator it’s not MEANT to explode, it COULD explode for this mission and they were okay with that, but I don’t think this is desirable
@sergeivinonen6651
May 23, 2026 at 5:54 am
Очередное ведро под именем илона, упало в океан, деньги освоены, 😂 да здравствует америка маска. 😂😂😂😂
@Cesar-b2c
May 23, 2026 at 6:32 am
I have some crazy ideas as to how to carry more fuel into space using some theoretical thinking. I wish education was more affordable
@saltedcuts
May 23, 2026 at 6:41 am
propellant =EXPLOSION 😡
@rogerwadham4627
May 23, 2026 at 7:11 am
Why does it explode after it touches down? They all do it.
@truejim
May 23, 2026 at 7:17 am
They’re landing it in the ocean for now. Thin metal shell filled with flammable fluid hits ocean and busts open. Metal is hot from reentry.
@mott_scanley0029
May 23, 2026 at 9:54 am
because it’s a literal 15-story building tipping over! of course it would burst open
@erlpht6031
May 23, 2026 at 10:08 am
They want to prevent a foreign government from capturing and reverse-engineering it
@elivelive
May 23, 2026 at 10:57 am
@erlpht6031interesting
@AudibleSpace
May 23, 2026 at 12:27 pm
Remember buddy, these are flight TESTS. The plan is to eventually catch the ships back at the launch tower just as they do with the booster. But when you’re still testing systems, why risk a perfectly good launch pad and tower incase the landing were to say fail. The ocean is a safe alternative where no people, industry or infrastructure is it risk. Plus, the amount of a data collected on each of these test flights is so valuable, it’s not a priority to recover the ships at this point.
@ra3or
May 23, 2026 at 7:13 am
6:14 thats not right
@citogrid
May 23, 2026 at 8:13 am
SpaceX ‘s Starship is a massive flaming pile of excrement. Launch yesterday, the booster return boost failed miserably, the in orbit restart wasn’t executed because one of the vac engines went kaput. dummy starlinks were succesfully ejected from pez dispenser. view from ‘dodger dog” showed lots of heatshield loss…. They took 2 steps forward and 2,5 steps back. Now at the same level as 2 years ago, so negative progress. Mars??? You gotta be kidding me. Moon??? oh, sure at this rate, maybe in a decade or so for SpaceX.
@steven_alleman
May 23, 2026 at 9:59 am
There was virtually no heat shield loss… by far their best heat shield yet.
@strategicthinker8899
May 23, 2026 at 5:42 pm
If they wanted to land on the moon 8 years ago they could with Falcon Heavy and Dragon. You clearly know nothing of the the hardware SpaceX has. It’s not about landing on the moon, it’s about full reusability of the entire stack not just the booster. That will enable multi-planetary and lunar operations at a price low enough to be routine and cost effective.
@minhlede
May 23, 2026 at 8:41 am
amazing and who is going to clean that up?
@steven_alleman
May 23, 2026 at 9:58 am
Every rocket company dumps their hardware in the ocean. SpaceX and Stoke are the only two companies trying to change that.
@minhlede
May 23, 2026 at 1:44 pm
@steven_allemanwell they could start now
@steven_alleman
May 23, 2026 at 2:21 pm
@minhledeThat’s what they’re doing. Rockets that do things that have never been done before take time and testing.
@minhlede
May 23, 2026 at 2:32 pm
@steven_alleman so spacex is sending clean up teams to the sea right after such an explosion?
@steven_alleman
May 23, 2026 at 4:56 pm
Where is your outrage being posted on pages like NASA, ULA, Blue Origin, Rocket Lab, etc.?
SpaceX is the only major company in the world trying to put nothing into the ocean. Yet, you’re selectively criticizing them…only.
@jamiestewart7327
May 23, 2026 at 8:58 am
Video starts at 3:00
@petros0358
May 23, 2026 at 9:59 am
i ow you 3 minutes of my time thank you!
@nooahchannel
May 23, 2026 at 9:13 am
Wow, going to Mars, while I even can not afford my bread in the morning. Great world.
@StyxStyx-xz7
May 23, 2026 at 10:41 am
Get a job.
@elivelive
May 23, 2026 at 11:03 am
@StyxStyx-xz7get him one
@nelrose2494
May 23, 2026 at 11:05 am
they going to mars just to suffer more.
@McDonut24
May 23, 2026 at 9:33 am
did the booster actually make it back to the water or did it blow up mid air?
@steven_alleman
May 23, 2026 at 9:57 am
Made it to the water. Landing burn failed related to boost back burn engines going out.
@charlie11ng42
May 23, 2026 at 9:34 am
Nice ending, thanks for this.
@krox477
May 23, 2026 at 9:49 am
“Space is hard”- elon musk
@krox477
May 23, 2026 at 9:55 am
The explosion at the end 11:35
@TechOs19
May 23, 2026 at 11:08 am
Classic Ai generated 😂
@Think6.6
May 23, 2026 at 10:20 am
Be SpaceX.
Take a market worth about $10B, IPO your company at $1.75T, then use Nasdaq-100 fast entry so index funds and pension-linked funds legally HAVE to buy in to track the index.
Sell only a small public slice, keep control, let ordinary people’s retirement money prop up the valuation, and add arbitration clauses so investors can’t easily sue when it all goes wrong.
@Sams_Uncle
May 23, 2026 at 10:32 am
Something isn’t right. Why do they cut cameras multiple times?
@TechOs19
May 23, 2026 at 11:09 am
Exactly and who’s filming 😂the earth is f!@t sir 😂Jesus is real and they are hiding that there is no God
@drachefly
May 23, 2026 at 7:46 pm
They compressed a >1 hr flight into 12 minutes
@user-hs9zi8uk1p
May 23, 2026 at 10:49 am
what they are cheering for?🤨
@Bling_The_Visual_Creator
May 23, 2026 at 1:13 pm
Launch successful, stage separation successful, payload launch successful, re-entry successful, ship flip successful.
@Bennettone
May 23, 2026 at 8:31 pm
keeping their jobs
@sparky99-o6o
May 23, 2026 at 1:08 pm
1,7T IPO and they can’t seem to make any major progress. Y’all should look closer at this IPO, its the biggest scam of all time, Musk is the greatest snake oil salesman ever. And people eat it up.
@jamesleesley
May 23, 2026 at 1:26 pm
They’ve pretty much perfected it by now. Awesome.
@kingjames7917
May 23, 2026 at 2:02 pm
I’m here to watch this video because people on x are saying it was a failure. Not only am I completely amazed by this mission, but I’m sad that it took questioning its validity to watch it. I don’t understand how they can see this as a failure. The ship did exactly what it was supposed to do and delivered its payload successfully. It’s clear that they did not intend to recover the rocket, and it flipped in order to practice recovery in the future. I’m truly confused by some people.
@Bash_KSA1
May 23, 2026 at 2:58 pm
Why did the booster rocket fall into the sea and explode? We’re used to SpaceX boosters returning to their base. I’m very sad that it exploded in the sea. Where is the protection of the marine environment?!
@Smuds
May 23, 2026 at 6:06 pm
Imagine how excited they would be if it hadn’t exploded
@drachefly
May 23, 2026 at 7:44 pm
which? Both halves were planned to explode. The booster wasn’t planned to crash into the gulf at the speed of sound, yeah. The ship, though, did a simulated catch on a tower that wasn’t there, and completed its mission… and then because there wasn’t actually a tower there, fell over and exploded.