A report relaying SpaceX’s Starship Flight 15 plan places the Super Heavy capture at T+00:06:35 and Starship’s at T+22:32:34. The planned endpoints are 22 hours, 25 minutes, 59 seconds apart, making the dual-capture objective a sequence spread across nearly a day, not two simultaneous returns (reported Flight 15 schedule).
The two planned capture points
| Vehicle | Planned capture endpoint | Order in the mission |
| Super Heavy | T+00:06:35 | First |
| Starship | T+22:32:34 | Later |
The reported flight profile calls for about 14 orbits at roughly 275 km altitude and more than 22 hours in flight. It also includes a planned deployment of 26 Starlink V3 satellites.
Follow two moments in the flight plan: Super Heavy’s early return, then Starship’s later, conditional return.
What Flight 15 plans for both returns
The reported objective is to bring both Super Heavy and Starship back to Starbase for capture by the launch tower. Flight 15 is also described as the first planned return-and-capture attempt for a Super Heavy V3 booster. Earlier captures involved Super Heavy V1: three boosters were caught on previous flights, and two later flew again.
Starship’s return is conditional on the flight-control team checking systems needed for reentry, the final landing burn and the approach to the tower. Three of the planned Starlink V3 satellites were reported to carry cameras intended to image Starship’s heat shield, one input to the return decision.
Earlier in the mission preparations, NeoTeo covered the Super Heavy booster’s 33-engine static fire.
The launch target reported before the flight
Reports published November 8–9 gave November 13, 2026, as the earliest launch target. They listed a 75-minute launch window opening at 4:45 p.m. Central Time and said the schedule could change and depended on regulatory approval.
