Starship Flight 15 · Starbase, Texas · 14 Nov 2026 · last 42 seconds
22:32:00.0
What this recreates
Ship 42, the upper stage of Starship Flight 15, came back from orbit after about 22.5 hours and was caught by the arms of a launch tower at Starbase, Texas, on 14 November 2026. This page rebuilds the last 42 seconds of the webcast, T+22:32:00 to 22:32:42, shot for shot. The default Webcast cut uses the same cameras and cuts as the broadcast, and the replay can play beside it locked to the same moment.
Measured from the webcast replay, frame by frame
The cut: a split screen of the onboard camera and a ground camera until :32:13 (the webcast's ground camera looks over the spectators, who are left out here), a wide drone shot of both towers to :32:19, a long-lens drone that follows the ship down to :32:27, the tower-top camera for the catch, then the drone again from :32:32.
The ship drops out of the cloud base at about 0.8 km near :32:10, lights three engines and flips at :32:11 to :13, leans back about 25° to shed its sideways drift, is upright just outside the arms by :32:19, slides in, steps down from three engines to two near :32:25 and settles on the arms at about :32:28.
Positions come from the ship's place in the frame in each shot, measured pixel by pixel with the 143 m tower as the ruler. Each camera's exposure and colour were matched by sampling the replay.
The look: a dark, layered overcast with no direct sun, grey-green tidal flats and lagoons, dunes, surf and the Gulf to the east, a pale pink methane plume about as long as the ship, and white vapour drifting off the ship after the catch.
Worth knowing
The broadcast's sources are not in step with each other. Taking the drone cameras as the clock, the ground camera shows the ship about a second and a half ahead, and the onboard camera and the altitude readout run one to two seconds behind. The split screen here keeps those offsets so each panel matches the replay. The gauges follow the drone clock, so they read lower than the webcast's during the descent.
Approximated: the path inside the cloud before the cameras pick the ship up, throttle levels, the exact step-down time, the tank layout in the cut-away, and the site plan away from the catch tower, which is scaled from the footage and not from survey data.
Space play/pause · ←/→ step one second · V B I render style · 1–8 cameras · W webcast replay · T telemetry · P flight path · H hide the controls. Drag to orbit in Free orbit; scroll to zoom. The replay starts muted; unmute it in its own player.