SpaceX recovers Starship from Indian Ocean a month after launch, shipping it to Texas
SpaceX has pulled off its biggest salvage operation yet, recovering its most recently launched Starship from the Indian Ocean
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Coverage at a glance
- First observed by CurrentWire: Phys.org · Aug 28, 2026 at 1:34 PM ET
- Coverage span: 22 min
- Coverage: 2 reports from 2 independent publications
- Coverage growth: 1 → 2 publications in 1d 0h
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All-time coverage
3 publications have covered this story since CurrentWire first saw it: ABC News, Phys.org, Space.com.
Coverage
2 publications are covering this story.
How coverage developed
First report from Phys.org
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Story updateCoverage went from 1 to 2 sources
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Signal breakdown
CurrentWire ranked this story 80.8 of 100 in the snapshot this page was rendered from.
- Freshness
- 33.3 of 35
- Source authority
- 14 of 20
- Coverage breadth
- 8.5 of 20
- Geographic relevance
- 10 of 10
- Story prominence
- 10 of 10
- Velocity
- 5 of 5
Strongest signal: geographic relevance, 10 of 10. How each signal is calculated.
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