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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 ...
The perfectly executed landing followed the Starship’s 232-foot Falcon Super Heavy booster rocket gracefully returning to the launchpad seven minutes after launch, where it was “caught” by a ...
In the chilly hours of Wednesday morning, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took its record-breaking 24th flight, delivering 24 of the company's Starlink satellites to orbit. The Falcon 9 rocket launched ...
Rather than strapping landing legs onto the side of the Super Heavy like the ones that adorn a Falcon 9’s booster, SpaceX instead built a special tower to support the Super Heavy’s return back ...
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.
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 ...
The Federal Aviation Administration has grounded SpaceX's Falcon 9 rockets pending an investigation to determine what caused a first-stage booster to crash onto a landing barge early Wednesday ...
The ten flight milestone was first achieved by Booster B1051 on the Starlink 27 mission in 2021. [4] All boosters in Block 4 and earlier have been retired, expended, or lost. The last flight of a Block 4 booster was in June 2018. Since then all boosters in the active fleet are Block 5. Booster names are a B followed by a four-digit number.