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SpaceX Finally Recovers Starship After 24 Days of Tugging It Through Rough Waters

Summary by Gizmodo
Starship 40 is in calmer waters and awaiting inspection by SpaceX engineers.

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SpaceX announced on August 18, 2026 that its recovery team had managed to guide Ship 40 to a location off Christmas Island, Australia's Indian Ocean territory, after about 24 days at sea. According to a Space Daily article, the upper Starship floor remains afloat, it is neither docked nor returned to Texas. A team of SpaceX engineers must go to the site to examine the ship in calmer waters, before an attempt to return to Starbase. It is a first …

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Gizmodo broke the news in New York, United States on Thursday, August 20, 2026.
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