SpaceX’s Starship Flight 11 reached stage separation just over two minutes after liftoff, igniting its upper-stage Raptors in a dramatic hot-staging sequence. Moments later, the Super Heavy booster executed a fiery boostback burn, flipping and firing its engines toward a planned splashdown in the Gulf of America. Flight 11 tested new landing-burn configurations and advanced guidance systems as SpaceX continues refining Starship for future orbital missions.