On Friday, May 22, 2026, Starship lifted off from Starbase, Texas for its twelfth flight test.

Flight 12 marked the first flight of the Starship and Super Heavy V3 vehicles, Raptor 3 engines, Pad 2, and modified Starlink satellites designed to image Starship in space.
Super Heavy ignited all 33 Raptor 3 engines and completed first-stage ascent before hot-staging. During boostback, the booster was unable to light all planned engines and later experienced a hard splashdown in the Gulf of America.
Starship lost one Raptor 3 vacuum engine during ascent but demonstrated engine-out capability and reached its planned trajectory. During coast, it deployed 20 Starlink simulators and two modified Starlink satellites.
After re-entry, Starship gathered heatshield and structural data, performed flap stress and banking maneuvers, then guided itself to the planned Indian Ocean splashdown zone. It completed its landing flip, landing burn, and splashdown on two Raptor engines.
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