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  2. Video shows mechanical SpaceX arms catching Starship rocket ...

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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 ...

  3. Starship launch as it happened: SpaceX aborts ‘chopstick ...

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    SpaceX aborted an attempt to catch its Starship rocket on Tuesday in a blow to Elon Musk’s Mars ambitions. ... Today’s launch will be 119th rocket that SpaceX has sent to space this year ...

  4. In an unprecedented feat, SpaceX uses robot arms to capture ...

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    The 397-foot-tall rocket blasted off from SpaceX's Boca Chica, Texas, flight facility on the Texas Gulf Coast at 8:25 a.m. EDT, putting on a spectacular sunrise show as the booster's 33 methane ...

  5. SpaceX aborts ‘chopstick’ catch of Starship rocket as Musk ...

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    SpaceX has aborted an attempt to catch its Starship rocket using a “chopsticks” system.. With SpaceX boss Elon Musk and President-elect Donald Trump watching on, Starship’s Super Heavy ...

  6. Starship flight test 5 - Wikipedia

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    Starship flight test 5 was the fifth flight test of a SpaceX Starship launch vehicle. SpaceX performed the flight test on October 13, 2024. The prototype vehicles flown were the Starship Ship 30 upper-stage and Super Heavy Booster 12.

  7. SpaceX Starship splashes down after 6th launch; booster catch ...

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    SpaceX successfully completed the sixth test launch of its Starship vehicle Tuesday, but skipped the anticipated "booster catch" maneuver before the rocket and spacecraft splashed down.. The ...

  8. SpaceX fairing recovery program - Wikipedia

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    The vessel subsequently was chartered by SpaceX in 2018 for an experimental program to provide surface marine "catch and recovery" operations for a test program attempting to bring the large 5.2 by 13.2 meters (17 ft × 43 ft) [15] Falcon 9 launch vehicle satellite fairings—separated at high speed and high altitude—through atmospheric ...

  9. Falcon 9 - Wikipedia

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    Falcon 9 is a partially reusable, human-rated, two-stage-to-orbit, medium-lift launch vehicle [a] designed and manufactured in the United States by SpaceX.The first Falcon 9 launch was on 4 June 2010, and the first commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) launched on 8 October 2012. [14]