Monday’s Starship Flight 11 launch was a success by all measures as SpaceX met all of its objectives exactly the way they were planned.
The three major objectives were to deploy the dummy Starlink V3 satellites in space, land the Super Heavy Booster 15-2 in the Gulf of America, and make a splashdown landing of the Flight 11 Starship spacecraft in the Indian Ocean.
With the data and experience of the Flight 10 Starship launch, SpaceX successfully met all of these objectives (read the Flight 11 live updates transcript archive for major events).
Elon Musk and SpaceX shared the footage of the landings of both of these vehicles. It’s amazing to watch the largest spacecraft and rocket ever made to make controlled landings precisely at the planned locations.
Booster 15-2 Landing Video
“The rocket came back from space at hypersonic speed and then hovered at a precise position,” Elon Musk wrote on X (Twitter).
The landing burn of the Flight 11 Booster 15-2 began with lighting up 13 engines, then reduced to 5, and finally, only 3 engines were lit before the splashdown landing.
The most interesting part is where the 71 meters (232 feet) tall Super Heavy rocket booster hovers over the ocean before landing as the engines turn off. Kaboom, Booster 15 finally explodes, and all that is left behind are the visuals and data.
The booster hovering above the ocean looks incredible pic.twitter.com/vAkkmvTJ7p
— Adrian Dittmann (@AdrianDittmann) October 14, 2025
Flight 11 Starship Landing Video
The footage of the splashdown landing of Flight 11 upper-stage Starship (Ship 38) is particularly interesting. This is because there were no drones or fixed cameras present in the Indian Ocean to capture the moment.
SpaceX installed a camera on a buoy in the middle of the ocean to capture the video of the Flight 11 Starship landing. The footage got delayed because of this reason. SpaceX received the video a bit late and might have applied stabilization to it for a better presentation as the buoy was floating on the sea.
Flight 11 Starship began the landing burn with three Raptor sea-level engines, then cut it down to two engines before splashing down into the ocean (watch below). This was the last Block 2/V2 Starship that was used in a launch test.
Flight 11 Liftoff Video (33 Raptor Engines)
The following video of the Flight 11 Starship lifting off off the orbital launch mount (OLM) Pad 1 at Starbase is nothing short of amazing. This footage is taken from a camera most probably installed on the launch tower (Mechazilla).
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