OR EspaçoX today launched the giant Starship rocket from Texas for its fifth test flight, to showcase the company’s first attempt to return the rocket’s first stage using large robotic arms.
The Super Heavy rocket’s first stage booster lifted off at 3:25 pm (GMT) from the SpaceX launch facility in Boca Chica, Texas, sending the Starship rocket’s second stage into space orbit, destined for the Indian Ocean, west of Australia. , with the aim of entering the atmosphere and then landing on a floating platform.
The tower caught the rocket!!
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THE Super heavy rocket launcher after separating from the Starship’s main thruster and at an altitude of 74 km, returned to its launch site, making a landing attempt using two robotic arms attached to the launch tower.
Sources: AMPE, Reuters