[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-starship-will-try-to-land-its-upper-stage-on-saturday":10,"sections":45},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":34,"tags":35,"sources":40,"feedback":44,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":44,"total_tokens":44},13036,"starship-will-try-to-land-its-upper-stage-on-saturday","Starship Will Try to Land Its Upper Stage on Saturday","SpaceX aims to recover a full orbital rocket for reuse, while Rocket Lab's Electron reaches its 100th launch the same weekend.","SpaceX plans to launch Starship on Friday, November 13, then attempt to land the rocket's upper stage 22.5 hours later, on Saturday afternoon local time at Starbase, Texas.\n\nNo orbital rocket has ever been fully recovered with the intent to reuse all of its components. That is the bar Starship is trying to clear. SpaceX's Falcon 9 already reuses its first stage, but its upper stage is discarded after each flight. Starship is designed to bring back both halves. The upper stage is the harder half, since it has to return from much higher speeds than the booster does. A gap of 22.5 hours between launch and landing also suggests that stage will spend most of a day in flight before it comes down.\n\nThe same weekend brings a quieter milestone. Rocket Lab's Electron is due to lift off from the Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand on November 14 at 5:30 UTC, NASASpaceflight.com reported. It will be the 100th Electron mission. The small rocket first flew in 2017, which works out to 100 launches in roughly nine years.\n\nThe two stories sit at opposite ends of the launch business. Electron shows what a small vehicle can do by flying again and again. Starship is trying to show that the reusability SpaceX has built into Falcon 9's first stage can extend to an entire rocket.","[\"spacex\",\"starship\",\"rocket-lab\",\"electron\"]","2026-11-13T12:00:40.000Z","2026-11-13T15:58:24.596Z","2026-11-13T15:59:18.694Z","published",null,[24,30],{"id":25,"reviewer":26,"round":27,"reason":28,"status":29},"editor-r1","editor",1,"Drop the unsupported \"roughly nine years\" claim (the source never gives the current year) and the Starship Nov 13 date, which the source only gives as \"Friday\"; stop treating Electron's 100 launches as evidence for \"the other route\" to reuse or a \"mature launch business\", since the source says nothing about Electron's reliability or reuse; and rebuild the headline and thesis around the one real news item (the Starship upper-stage landing attempt 22.5 hours after launch) with Electron's 100th mis","resolved",{"id":31,"reviewer":26,"round":32,"reason":33,"status":29},"editor-r2",2,"Remove the process artifacts ('as the source describes it', 'the source gives no detail on how the landing will work') and name NASASpaceflight.com instead of the vague 'according to spaceflight reporting' for the Electron item.","science",[36,37,38,39],"spacex","starship","rocket-lab","electron",[41],{"name":42,"url":43},"Ars Technica","https:\u002F\u002Farstechnica.com\u002Fspace\u002F2026\u002F11\u002Frocket-report-starship-set-for-historic-test-flight-a-century-of-electron\u002F",0,{"sections":46},[47,52,57,62,67,72,77,80,85,90,95,100,105,110],{"name":48,"slug":49,"count":50,"latest_published_at":51},"AI","ai",7151,"2026-11-13T11:05:00.000Z",{"name":53,"slug":54,"count":55,"latest_published_at":56},"Security","security",1132,"2026-11-12T15:35:00.000Z",{"name":58,"slug":59,"count":60,"latest_published_at":61},"Deals","deals",654,"2026-11-13T13:07:23.000Z",{"name":63,"slug":64,"count":65,"latest_published_at":66},"Policy","policy",622,"2026-11-13T11:00:00.000Z",{"name":68,"slug":69,"count":70,"latest_published_at":71},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",370,"2026-11-12T17:00:00.000Z",{"name":73,"slug":74,"count":75,"latest_published_at":76},"Hardware","hardware",338,"2026-11-13T12:42:43.000Z",{"name":78,"slug":34,"count":79,"latest_published_at":18},"Science",232,{"name":81,"slug":82,"count":83,"latest_published_at":84},"Software","software",172,"2026-11-13T11:04:24.000Z",{"name":86,"slug":87,"count":88,"latest_published_at":89},"Startups","startups",160,"2026-11-12T17:31:47.000Z",{"name":91,"slug":92,"count":93,"latest_published_at":94},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",127,"2026-11-11T19:00:44.000Z",{"name":96,"slug":97,"count":98,"latest_published_at":99},"General","general",120,"2026-11-13T11:33:19.000Z",{"name":101,"slug":102,"count":103,"latest_published_at":104},"Gaming","gaming",109,"2026-11-13T10:00:00.000Z",{"name":106,"slug":107,"count":108,"latest_published_at":109},"Reviews","reviews",38,"2026-10-20T12:00:00.000Z",{"name":111,"slug":112,"count":113,"latest_published_at":114},"How-To","how-to",8,"2026-10-05T09:00:00.000Z"]