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The rocket took off from its launchpad in Boca Chica at about 9:25 a.m. ET, clearing several critical hurdles along its hourlong journey. "Starship reached orbital velocity!" SpaceX founder Elon ...
The launch tower’s monstrous metal arms, dubbed chopsticks, caught the descending 232-foot (71-meter) booster and gripped it tightly, dangling it well above the ground. “The tower has caught ...
Following Tuesday's launch, the Falcon 9 rocket's first-stage booster was able to detach from the spacecraft within 10 minutes, guide itself back to Earth and land as planned aboard a drone ship ...
Gravity-1 launch in January 2024. A floating launch vehicle operations platform is a marine vessel used for launch or landing operations of an orbital launch vehicle by a launch service provider: putting satellites into orbit around Earth or another celestial body, or recovering first-stage boosters from orbital-class flights by making a propulsive landing on the platform.
China's Orienspace's Gravity-1 rocket completed its successful maiden flight on 11 January 2024, debuting on a new mobile sea platform in the Yellow Sea while breaking records as both the world's largest solid-fuel carrier rocket and China's most powerful commercial launch vehicle to date (as of early 2024).
SpaceX calls the entire launch vehicle "Starship", which consists of the Super Heavy first stage (booster) and the ambiguously-named Starship second stage (ship). [4] There are three versions of Starship: Block 1 (also known as Starship 1, Version 1, or V1) which is retired, Block 2 which will fly in Starship flight test 7 , and Block 3 , which ...
A record-extending launch. Tuesday 19 November 2024 18:43, Anthony Cuthbertson. Today’s launch will be 119th rocket that SpaceX has sent to space this year, marking a new record for the private ...
SpaceX video of the launch showed debris shooting into the ocean nearly half a mile away. [59] The rocket exhaust scattered debris for hundreds of yards, leaving a crater under its launch mount, and dented inert storage tanks near the launch pad. [59] Musk said large chunks of concrete hit the launch tower but caused no meaningful damage. [49]