SpaceX’s Starship rocket completed its boldest test flight yet with the help of “chopsticks,' the monstrous metal arms that caught the rocket booster back at the launch pad.
The boldest test flight yet of SpaceX’s Starship rocket ended Sunday with a set of mechanical arms catching the returning booster back at the launch pad.Dubbed "chopsticks," the monstrous arms were attached to the launch tower in Boca Chica, Texas, and caught the 232-foot ‘Super Heavy’ booster in an engineering first."This is a day for the engineering history books," Kate Tice, SpaceX manager of quality systems engineering, said in a live broadcast of the event.
It arced over the Gulf of Mexico like the four Starships before it that ended up being destroyed, either soon after liftoff or while ditching into the sea. The last one in June was the most successful yet, completing its flight without exploding.This time, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk upped the challenge and risk by bringing the rocket booster back to the launch pad – recycling boosters can speed up launch rates and save Space X millions.
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