SpaceX launches its fifth Starship test flight from Texas and returns the rocket's towering first stage booster back to land for the first time, achieving a novel recovery method involving large metal arms.
SpaceX launches its fifth Starship test flight from Texas and returns the rocket's towering first stage booster back to land for the first time, achieving a novel recovery method involving large metal arms.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. / Photo: AP
This time, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk upped the challenge and risk. The company brought the first-stage booster back to land at the pad from which it had soared seven minutes earlier. The launch tower sported monstrous metal arms, dubbed chopsticks, that caught the descending 71-metre booster.“Even in this day and age, what we just saw is magic,” SpaceX's Dan Huot observed from near the launch site. “I am shaking right now.
The retro-looking stainless steel spacecraft on top continued around the world once free of the booster, targeting a controlled splashdown in the Indian Ocean, where it would sink to the bottom. The entire flight was expected to last just over an hour.
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