--- title: "Against all odds, SpaceX finally tugs Starship into port after 24 days at sea" url: https://daily.dev/posts/against-all-odds-spacex-finally-tugs-starship-into-port-after-24-days-at-sea-yi1dbhult source_url: https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/08/its-christmastime-at-spacex-as-company-salvages-starship-from-indian-ocean type: article source: "Ars Technica" published: 2026-08-18T20:36:54.125Z updated: 2026-08-18T20:37:14.074Z tags: ["spacex"] reading_time: 2 upvotes: 15 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Against all odds, SpaceX finally tugs Starship into port after 24 days at sea **[Ars Technica](https://daily.dev/sources/arstechnica)** · 2 min read · 15 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary SpaceX's Starship survived splashdown in the Indian Ocean after its 13th test flight on July 24, remaining intact rather than breaking apart as previous test vehicles had. A recovery ship towed the spacecraft roughly several hundred miles to Christmas Island, an Australian territory, arriving after 24 days at sea. SpaceX engineers are heading there to inspect the hardware in calmer waters before figuring out how to transport the massive vehicle—over 170 feet long and too big for any aircraft—the more than 10,000 miles back to Starbase in South Texas. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Starship flight 13 worked. Next up: catching the ship.](https://daily.dev/posts/starship-flight-13-worked-next-up-catching-the-ship--barljosar) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#spacex](https://daily.dev/tags/spacex) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/against-all-odds-spacex-finally-tugs-starship-into-port-after-24-days-at-sea-yi1dbhult)