Starship Flight 14's stage separation, in 'epic views' from every angle
Space.com's video channel cut SpaceX's footage of Super Heavy letting go of the ship into one reel, and viewers keep pausing it at the same few seconds.
VideoFromSpaceStory of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 627,410 views a day, 18 times a normal first day on this channel (34,180).
Wow! SpaceX Starship Flight 14 Stage Separation in Epic Views
Close to half a million views in about fifteen hours: that is how far "Wow! SpaceX Starship Flight 14 Stage Separation in Epic Views" traveled after VideoFromSpace posted it on Sunday. A new video on Space.com's channel usually ends its whole first day around 34,000.
The reel covers a few seconds of the September 28 flight, seen several times over. SpaceX's footage shows the Super Heavy booster splitting from Starship from multiple angles, edited together by Space.com's Steve Spaleta. That was the flight on which Starship finally reached orbit, and as we reported here, the channel had already posted a view looking back at the ship from a Starlink satellite's own camera.
The split is not gentle. Since its second test flight in November 2023, Starship has lit its upper-stage engines while still attached to the booster, a method called hot staging, so the ship pushes off on its own fire. One viewer, pausing around the five-minute mark, wonders how any camera survives that heat. Others are struck by how controlled everything looks at that speed, and the Earth curving below draws as much attention as the hardware. Near the six-minute mark, a running joke claims someone else is watching. One commenter argues the flight got far too little attention outside dedicated space sites.
The same footage, cut down to a short, is close to 90,000 views of its own, and Friday's Falcon Heavy launch of the NROL-97 spy satellite mission is not far behind the big reel. In between the rockets, the channel also found room for the Star Trek fans who helped NASA's first space shuttle get the name Enterprise fifty years ago.
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What viewers say
Incredible controllability at such insane speed
@ErrorAcquiredSee it on YouTubeThe view of Starship moving away from the booster is great.
@pgs1796See it on YouTubeOur forever beauty the Earth😍😍😍
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- Channel
- VideoFromSpace
- Subscribers
- 2,150,000
- Channel views, pace per day
- 354,753 (on a normal day: 616,713)
- Video published
- October 4, 2026
- Video views so far
- 489,888 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 627,410
The numbers
For a channel whose new videos usually open quietly, this one moved at a very different speed.
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What is the name of the engine that powers both SpaceX's Super Heavy booster and Starship?
Super Heavy and Starship both fly on SpaceX's methane-fueled Raptor engines, while Merlin powers the Falcon rockets.
