Watch Live! SpaceX Starship Flight 15 Reentry and Potential Catch at Starbase - YouTube

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SpaceX plans to catch the upper stage of its Starship megarocket for the first time ever today (Nov. 14), and you can watch the action live.

Starship launched on its 15th test flight on Friday evening (Nov. 13), rising into the sky from SpaceX's Starbase site in South Texas. The mission plan called for bringing both of the vehicle's stages back to Starbase and catching them with the launch tower's "chopstick" arms — an unprecedented total recovery of an orbital rocket .

That didn't happen, however; SpaceX diverted Starship's Super Heavy booster to a controlled splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico 6.5 minutes after launch. (SpaceX said later that a guidance and navigaton issue during its descent triggered and automatic abort.…