Starship reaches orbital velocity and is reused
The first flight-proven Super Heavy booster flies again.
- When
- Known to
- ± 12 hours
- Era
- Contemporary, Holocene
Flight 9 on 27 May 2025 was the first to reuse a Super Heavy booster, a central premise of the vehicle's economics. The upper stage reached its planned trajectory but lost attitude control and broke up on re-entry, one of several 2025 failures that pushed the Artemis III landing schedule further out. Starship remains the largest and most powerful rocket ever flown.