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Starship has returned to Earth from orbit and has — for the first time — been caught by giant mechanical arms.
SpaceX officials say catch by mechanical arms shows Starship's full reusability, crucial for rapid, low-cost recycling.
SpaceX has performed the historic catch using mechanical arms nicknamed "chopsticks".
Starship reached orbit on Flight 15 and deployed 26 Starlink satellites. The booster aborted its catch; the ship tries a tower catch on Saturday.
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It felt like stepping into the future.
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The test flight is SpaceX's first attempt to catch both the Super Heavy booster and upper stage spacecraft of the rocket at its launch site in Starbase, Texas.
It was the grand finale that Elon Musk and his team hoped for – the first-ever capture of a Starship flying back from space.
Elon Musk’s company will try to grab both parts of the rocket for the first time.
The company's spacecraft returned to its Texas launchpad in dramatic fashion — by carefully lowering itself until two metal arms attached to the launch tower could secure it.
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Although booster exploded, company caught upper stage for first time in campaign to make megarocket reusable
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The latest test flight of the SpaceX rocket made history when its orbital craft re-entered Earth’s atmosphere and returned to the launch where it started.
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Starship Test Flight 15 marked the first time Elon Musk's company tried to catch both the booster and upper stage of the rocket.
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In an unprecedented maneuver, the Starship spacecraft just came sweeping down to a pinpoint landing within the arms of SpaceX’s Mechazilla launch tower.
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One way or another, the company will get some more data on Saturday.
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SpaceX captured Starship using the arms of ‘Mechazilla’ its launch and catch tower for the first time.
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But Musk said success was not guaranteed.
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[Media: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XM0lpVlvo0] NASASpaceFlight (below) has multiple angles of the booster explosion if you scrub back. Today was supposed to be the first time in history that an entire orbital launch system would be recovered, but that milestone will have to wait. The Starship itself has already deployed 22 payloads though, and it may still be able to return to SpaceX’s Starbase.
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Flight 15 expected to orbit Earth about 14 times over 22 hours, before company catches it at Starbase, Texas