Unexpected! SpaceX revealed Starship Horizontal Transport after Landing on Droneship...

Unexpected! SpaceX revealed Starship Horizontal Transport after Landing on Droneship...
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00:00: Intro
00:42: Why will SpaceX transport Starship horizontally?
05:42: What will they need to prepare?
09:01: The droneship landing method
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Unexpected! SpaceX revealed Starship Horizontal Transport after Landing on Droneship...
Landing on a droneship—
It’s a bold vision SpaceX has long had for Starship, and now it’s been officially highlighted in a recent FAA document.
But that leads to a bigger question:
What happens next? How will Starship return home?
This is a question many have been asking. And impressively, SpaceX already has a unique answer—something they're calling horizontal transportation.
So, why is SpaceX choosing this method? What upgrades or changes will be needed to make it work?
Let’s explore the answers in today’s episode of Great SpaceX.
Unexpected! SpaceX revealed Starship Horizontal Transport after Landing on Droneship...
It’s been two years since Starship’s very first integrated test flight, and now we’re on the brink of Flight 9.
After countless upgrades and iterations, SpaceX has just taken another major step forward—the FAA has officially approved the Starship launch proposal at Starbase. This approval marks a critical milestone: it allows SpaceX to conduct up to 25 Starship launches per year from the site, without mandatory delays for mishap investigations after every anomaly. That flexibility could drastically accelerate Starship’s development and testing timeline. And with the upgraded launch pad and improved vehicles ready for action, a new era for Starship may be just around the corner.
Equally important, the FAA document also outlines several designated landing zones for Starship operations—strategically placed across the globe. These include offshore regions near Texas in the Gulf of Mexico, locations in the Indian Ocean, and two areas in the eastern Pacific Ocean.
Unexpected! SpaceX revealed Starship Horizontal Transport after Landing on Droneship...
Notably, many of these zones are located over open water, and that reveals SpaceX’s preferred landing method going forward: ocean recovery using a droneship. This approach is explicitly detailed in the FAA’s Final Tiered Environmental Assessment, confirming that SpaceX intends to apply the same successful recovery strategy it developed for Falcon 9.
As many are already familiar, Falcon boosters land vertically on droneships positioned offshore, and are then transported back to the mainland for inspection, refurbishment, and eventual reuse. It’s a system that has enabled dozens of re-flights and dramatically lowered launch costs.
But Starship, of course, introduces a whole new scale of complexity.
Both Starship’s upper stage and the massive Super Heavy booster are significantly taller and heavier than Falcon 9. While Falcon boosters are around 47 meters tall and weigh approximately 25.6 tons dry, Starship and Super Heavy stand at about 50 and 71 meters tall, respectively—and those figures may increase to 70 and 80 meters with future upgrades, as referenced in the FAA documentation.

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