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SpaceX’s Starship 40 Successfully Deploys Starlink V3 Satellites

9/9/2026

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SpaceX launched Starship 40 from Starbase, Texas, on July 24, surviving splashdown in the Indian Ocean.
Starship 40 deployed 20 Starlink V3 satellites during its roughly 65-minute suborbital flight.
The deployed satellites reentered and burned up about 20 minutes later, as intended for the test.
A boat towed Starship 40 to calmer water before a transit ship delivers it to Brownsville, Texas, by Oct. 8.

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Story summary

SpaceX launched Starship 40 from Starbase, Texas, on July 24, surviving splashdown in the Indian Ocean.
Starship 40 deployed 20 Starlink V3 satellites during its roughly 65-minute suborbital flight.
The deployed satellites reentered and burned up about 20 minutes later, as intended for the test.
A boat towed Starship 40 to calmer water before a transit ship delivers it to Brownsville, Texas, by Oct. 8.