Nov 13 Could Be A Huge Day For SpaceX Stock

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SpaceX will try to catch both Starship stages with its launch tower on Friday, and Wall Street sees it as a big deal for the stock. The ship has never been caught before, though, so a miss could push the payoff further out.

On Friday, Nov. 13, Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (NASDAQ:SPCX) will try to catch both stages of an orbital rocket -- the Super Heavy booster and the Starship upper stage -- with the arms of its launch tower in Starbase, Texas.

Wall Street is treating Starship Flight 15 like a major event for the stock -- and it is. Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) analyst Adam Jonas called a successful Starship catch potentially "the biggest positive catalyst since the IPO" for the company. Elon Musk said on the company's October earnings call that success was "more likely than not." We'll see if that prediction holds up on Friday.

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After the rocket takes flight sometime after 5:45 p.m. ET, the two stages will separate with Starship headed into orbit and the booster returning to Starbase 6.5 minutes after liftoff for the first catch. Meanwhile, Starship will begin circling the Earth, orbiting the globe 14 times over more than 22 hours while it deploys 26 of SpaceX's Starlink V3 -- its newest generation -- satellites. Starship then makes its reentry and heads back for its own catch attempt on Saturday.

SpaceX has successfully caught the booster three times before, but never Starship. The critical upper stage comes back from orbit much faster and from much farther away. That makes things a whole lot trickier, as you can imagine. If anything looks off, SpaceX can abort and divert Starship to the ocean.

SpaceX's current workhorse, Falcon 9, already reuses its booster, but it throws away its upper stage on every flight. That's what makes Starship so important: full reusability makes space launch dramatically cheaper.

Starship only reached orbit for the first time this September during Flight 14, and an engine problem led…

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