We're getting very close to Starship Flight 14 and this is going to be something very special For the first time, SpaceX plans to catch Starship itself with Mechazilla chopsticks Super Heavy has already been successfully caught 3 times Now it's Starship's turn... Flight 13 ended with such a precise soft landing that Elon said Starship would have been caught by the tower arms if SpaceX had attempted it And this comes right as Starlink V3 moves from testing toward operational deployment Flight 13 already proved the architecture by successfully deploying 20 Starlink V3 satellites V3 is an absolute monster: • ~1 Tbps downlink capacity PER satellite • ~10X the downlink capacity of V2 • Up to 60 V3 satellites on a single Starship • ~60 Tbps of new capacity from ONE launch • 20X+ more Starlink downlink capacity deployed per launch vs Falcon 9 SpaceX spent the previous flights proving the pieces needed to get here: Raptor 3, the heat shield, reentry, in-space engine relight, payload deployment and precise landing Flight 14 brings it all together • Attempt to catch Starship • Deploy V3 into orbit • Move Starship from an experimental vehicle toward a fully and rapidly reusable transportation system This is where Starship starts becoming the fully reusable transportation system SpaceX designed it to be