{"id":66469,"date":"2026-10-08T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/?guid=d60fb96f240d08986db808bad9956ef7"},"modified":"2026-10-08T14:30:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T14:30:46","slug":"relive-starships-1st-ever-orbital-flight-with-these-epic-spacex-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/2026\/10\/08\/relive-starships-1st-ever-orbital-flight-with-these-epic-spacex-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"Relive Starship&#8217;s 1st-ever orbital flight with these epic SpaceX videos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n                            \n                            <article>\n                                <iframe src=\"https:\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/players\/J2Rs1PFS.html\" id=\"J2Rs1PFS\" title=\"Wow! SpaceX Starship deploys V3 Starlink satellites in epic new view from orbit\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><p>The great views of Starship's first orbital flight keep on coming.<\/p><p>The megarocket circled our planet for the first time ever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/launches-spacecraft\/spacex-starship-megarocket-flight-14-orbital-launch-success\"><u>on Sept. 28<\/u><\/a>, its 14th liftoff to date. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-starship-super-heavy.html\"><u>Starship<\/u><\/a> deployed some payloads when it got up there \u2014 26 of the company's next-gen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-starlink-satellites.html\"><u>Starlink<\/u><\/a> satellites, the first members of a broadband constellation that will eventually consist of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/satellites\/spacex-wants-to-launch-100-000-starlink-satellites-to-orbit\"><u>100,000 spacecraft<\/u><\/a>, if all goes to plan.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/18853-spacex.html\"><u>SpaceX<\/u><\/a> already released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/launches-spacecraft\/wow-watch-spacexs-starship-megarocket-deploy-satellites-into-orbit-for-1st-time-ever-photos-video\"><u>still imagery<\/u><\/a> of that historic deployment, which was captured by cameras on a few of the Starlink satellites. But on Tuesday, the company gave us something even better, releasing gorgeous video of Starlink craft popping out of the Starship upper stage's \"Pez dispenser\" slot.<\/p><figure class=\"van-image-figure  inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check ><div class='image-full-width-wrapper'><div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:2560px;\"><p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img id=\"YDFQxP3XYijB7mYkRd3gKU\" name=\"Screenshot 2026-10-06 at 12.04.07\u202fPM\" alt=\"photo from a satellite in space, showing two flat satellites deploying from a large silver spacecraft with earth in the background\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/YDFQxP3XYijB7mYkRd3gKU-1920-80.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline\"><\/p><\/div><\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"caption-text\">Starship's Ship upper stage deploys Starlink V3 satellites during its first-ever orbital flight on Sept. 28, 2026. <\/span><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: SpaceX)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><p>\"Constant communication is what makes autonomy like this safe,\" representatives of Starlink, which is a SpaceX subsidiary, said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Starlink\/status\/2107486879935545743\" ><u>Tuesday X post<\/u><\/a> that featured the deployment video.<\/p><p>\"Early contact lets us take maneuvering responsibility, publish ephemeris faster than ground radar can catalog the object, and deorbit and keep commanding through demise if needed,\" they added. \"We treat early communications as a requirement, not a nice-to-have.\"<\/p><figure class=\"van-image-figure  inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check ><div class='image-full-width-wrapper'><div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:2560px;\"><p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img id=\"rEtbxcSdVkmTKUGcobiCqQ\" name=\"Screenshot 2026-10-06 at 12.50.31\u202fPM\" alt=\"a large rocket with its six engines glowing orange is seen high above earth\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/rEtbxcSdVkmTKUGcobiCqQ-1920-80.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline\"><\/p><\/div><\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"caption-text\">Starship's Ship upper stage (right) separates from its Super Heavy booster during Flight 14 on Sept. 28, 2026. <\/span><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: SpaceX)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><p>A few days earlier, on Oct. 2, SpaceX <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SpaceX\/status\/2106089751837278533\" ><u>posted three short videos<\/u><\/a> of another important Flight 14 milestone \u2014 stage separation, when the megarocket's 171-foot-tall (52 meters) Ship spacecraft began flying independently of its Super Heavy booster.<\/p><p>The footage captured the farewell from both perspectives. One video showed Super Heavy falling back toward Earth, while the other two revealed Ship powering its way toward orbit, its six Raptor engines glowing yellow-orange with the effort.<\/p><p>Super Heavy came down relatively quickly, steering itself to a splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico about seven minutes after liftoff. Ship stayed up for another three hours, circling Earth multiple times (and deploying those Starlink satellites) before meeting its own watery end in the northern Pacific Ocean.<\/p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/players\/X3f35mPE.html\" id=\"X3f35mPE\" title=\"SpaceX Starship Flight 14 Stage Separation in Epic Views\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><p>Despite Flight 14's successes, Starship remains in the development phase and needs to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/launches-spacecraft\/starship-just-reached-orbit-for-the-1st-time-whats-next-for-the-spacex-megarocket\"><u>tick a few other important boxes<\/u><\/a> before it's fully operational.<\/p><p>For example, SpaceX still needs to demonstrate in-space refueling of Ship, which will be necessary on all Starship missions that venture beyond Earth orbit. And crewed versions of the vehicle will need a life-support system, which has yet to fly on any of the test missions to date.<\/p><div style=\"min-height: 1300px;\">                                <div class=\"kwizly-quiz kwizly-eM3blO\"><\/div>                            <\/div>                            <script src=\"https:\/\/kwizly.com\/embed\/eM3blO.js\" async><\/script>\n                                                            <\/article>\n                            \n                        ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly released footage shows Starship&#8217;s upper stage separating from its booster and deploying Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":587,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3556,1263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-launches-spacecraft","category-space-exploration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/587"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66470,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66469\/revisions\/66470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}