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As the Super Heavy rocket booster — the bottommost section, or first stage, of the Starship system — burned through most of its fuel, SpaceX guided the Super Heavy back to a pinpoint landing ...
The rocket's first stage "Super Heavy" booster lifted off at 7:25 a.m. CT (1225 GMT) from SpaceX's Boca Chica, Texas launch facilities, sending the Starship second stage rocket toward space before ...
The upper stage also returned to Earth, landing in the Indian Ocean. SpaceX on Sunday carried out its fifth flight test of Starship , a powerful rocket that Elon Musk hopes will one day take ...
Rocket debris from a SpaceX's Starship Super Heavy booster was spotted in the sky after a "rapid unscheduled disassembly" before part of the device successfully returned to its "chopsticks" for a ...
The goals for the test flight were for the Super Heavy booster to land on a 'virtual tower' in the ocean. [104] Super Heavy achieved a soft splashdown, [105] before being destroyed after tipping over. [106] [107] In April 2024, Musk stated one of the goals was to attempt a booster tower landing based on successful booster performance in flight 4.
The first landing test occurred in September 2013 on the sixth flight of a Falcon 9 and maiden launch of the v1.1 rocket version.From 2013 to 2016, sixteen test flights were conducted, six of which achieved a soft landing and recovery of the booster:
The landing mishap ended a string of 267 successful booster recoveries dating back to February 2021. The Falcon 9's second stage, meanwhile, successfully carried 21 Starlink satellites to their ...
Falcon 9 booster B1056 was a reusable Falcon 9 Block 5 first-stage booster manufactured by SpaceX. The booster was the fourth Falcon 9 to fly four times and broke a turnaround record for an orbital class booster on its fourth flight. The booster's service came to an end on its fourth flight following a landing failure on a Starlink flight. [1]