SpaceX Starship’s super-heavy booster was trapped in mid-air after the rocket’s successful launch (Photo: screenshot/X/Elon Musk)
SpaceX‘s starship It took off successfully on Sunday on its fifth test flight. The rocket was launched from the Texas launch pad. SpaceX successfully captured its Super heavy reinforcement between heaven and earth. Elon Musk also shared video of the company’s first attempt to return the rocket’s Super Heavy booster to the launch tower.
The booster reportedly separated from Starship at an altitude of 74 km (approx.). The founder of SpaceX shared videos of the maneuver. In the videos published by Musk you can see that the propeller was captured held with its robotic arms.
Elon Musk’s tweet:
Meanwhile, Starship e will land in the Indian Ocean, west of Australia.
Earlier Sunday, SpaceX launched its massive Starship rocket. Standing nearly 400 feet (121 meters) tall, the empty Starship took off at dawn from the southern tip of Texas, near the Mexican border. It traced an arc over the Gulf of Mexico. Prior to this attempt, four Starships were destroyed.
SpaceX tweet:
SpaceX aimed to land the first stage booster back on the pad from which the rocket had taken off.
Notably, Starship was fully loaded with more than 4,500 metric tons (10 million pounds) of propellant.
SpaceX has been recovering the first-stage boosters from its smaller Falcon 9 rockets for nine years, after delivering satellites and crews to orbit from Florida or California. But they land on floating ocean platforms or concrete slabs several kilometers from their launch pads.
(With contributions from The Associated Press)
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