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The Starlink simulators will be on the same suborbital trajectory as Starship, with splashdown targeted in the Indian Ocean.
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Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
Where to livestream splashdown The astronauts are on about a 17-hour voyage back to Earth, where they are expected to make a water landing at about 4:57 p.m. CT off the Florida coast, according to NASA.
—Diana Leyva, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
The upper stage in 2024 made some promising trips more than halfway around the world with splashdown landings in the Indian Ocean off the western coast of Australia.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 23 May 2025
The Dragon capsule, developed by Elon Musk's commercial spaceflight company to deliver cargo and crews to the orbital outpost, will then embark on a long voyage ending with a splashdown landing Friday, May 23, off the coast of California.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 22 May 2025
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Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
Where to livestream splashdown The astronauts are on about a 17-hour voyage back to Earth, where they are expected to make a water landing at about 4:57 p.m. CT off the Florida coast, according to NASA.
—Diana Leyva, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
The upper stage in 2024 made some promising trips more than halfway around the world with splashdown landings in the Indian Ocean off the western coast of Australia.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 23 May 2025
The Dragon capsule, developed by Elon Musk's commercial spaceflight company to deliver cargo and crews to the orbital outpost, will then embark on a long voyage ending with a splashdown landing Friday, May 23, off the coast of California.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 22 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for splashdown
landing
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The National Transportation Safety Board concluded Flight 212 crashed in 1974 due to pilot error, and the recording of the two pilots’ conversation while landing revealed a lot of casual conversation that had little to do with flying the plane.—
Scott Fowler,
Charlotte Observer,
10 Sep. 2025
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Still, in March, a collision alarm sounded in the cockpit of a Delta Air Lines jet when Air Force jets conducting a flyover at Arlington National Cemetery got too close, and in May, an Army helicopter circling the neighboring Pentagon, caused two passenger jets to abort landings.—
Aaron Cooper,
CNN Money,
9 Sep. 2025
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