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The goals for the test flight were for the Super Heavy booster to land on a 'virtual tower' in the ocean. [106] Super Heavy achieved a soft splashdown, [107] before being destroyed after tipping over. [108] [109] 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 Super Heavy booster is reusable, and is recovered via large arms on the tower capable of catching the descending vehicle. [7] As of November 2024, 0 boosters have been refurbished and subsequently flown at least a second time, though a single booster, Booster 12, has been recovered after flight.
This mission marked the 300th Falcon 9 launch, the 200th consecutive successful landing of a booster, and the first time SpaceX launched three rockets within 24 hours. SpaceX removed the stiffener ring around the nozzle of Merlin Vacuum Engine on Starlink missions starting with this launch. [259] 301 20 February 2024 20:11 [260] F9 B5 B1067.17
The rocket's 233-foot-tall (71-metre-tall) first stage booster, called Super Heavy, detached from its second stage, Starship, at roughly 40 miles (62 km) in altitude, sending the craft into space.
Elon Musk SpaceX landing. ... The perfectly executed landing followed the Starship’s 232-foot Falcon Super Heavy booster rocket gracefully returning to the launchpad seven minutes after launch ...
Super Heavy's successful landing on Sunday is one of the last big steps toward achieving that goal. The savings of reusability aren't hypothetical; SpaceX's Falcon 9 boosters have already proved ...
The manufacture of first-stage booster constitutes about 60% of the launch price of a single expended Falcon 9 [1] (and three of them over 80% of the launch price of an expended Falcon Heavy), which led SpaceX to develop a program dedicated to recovery and reuse of these boosters.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship successfully pulled off another spectacular launch on Tuesday — but aborted an attempt to catch the Super Heavy booster rocket with the “Mechazilla” arms ...