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SpaceX pulled off the boldest test flight yet of its enormous Starship rocket on Sunday, catching the returning booster back at the launch pad with mechanical arms.. A jubilant Elon Musk called it ...
SpaceX achieved an incredible engineering feat on Sunday. The company launched the fifth test flight of its Starship rocket.. After liftoff, the Super Heavy booster returned to the launchpad in a ...
SpaceX aims to achieve this by reusing both rocket stages, increasing payload mass to orbit, increasing launch frequency, creating a mass-manufacturing pipeline and adapting it to a wide range of space missions. [3] [4] Starship is the latest project in SpaceX's reusable launch system development program and plan to colonize Mars.
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 ...
After stage separation, B1060 performed its first return-to-launch-site landing. [20] [21] [22] The booster opened a busy 2023 with the launch of its second ridesharing mission, Transporter-6, releasing 114 payloads into sun-synchronous orbit. [23] SpaceX uploaded a sped-up onboard video of the booster's launch and landing on this mission. [24]
After launching and delivering the Starship upper stage into a suborbital trajectory heading toward a splashdown in the Indian Ocean, the Super Heavy booster turned around and fired its Raptor engines to return to the launch site. As the booster approached the launch pad it slowed to a near hover and did a horizontal slide maneuver to line ...
SpaceX’s mega rocket booster returns to the launch pad to be captured during a test flight Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024, in Boca Chica, Texas. AP A still from Starship’s fifth flight test.
Booster 4 was the first vehicle intended to fly on Starship's Flight Test 1. It was the first Super Heavy to be stacked with Starship, [83] and conducted multiple cryogenic tests before being retired in favor of Booster 7 and Ship 24. [84] Booster 7 being tested on the orbital launch pad at Starbase, Boca Chica, Texas in February 2023.