SpaceX successfully caught a returning Starship spacecraft with mechanical arms at its Starbase facility in south Texas on Saturday, a first for the company. The 15th test flight of the rocket system orbited Earth 14 times and deployed 26 Starlink satellites.
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It will also need to further fine-tune the Super Heavy booster, which ran into a technical issue Friday on its descent, forcing a splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico instead of a "chopstick arm" recovery.
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Elon Musk's SpaceX on Saturday pulled off the first-ever "catch" of a spaceship, a technical feat showing the feasibility of fully reusable rockets that would bring affordable spaceflight one step closer to reality.
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That was the Holy Grail of spaceflight, plummeting through fire to be snatched out of the air by steel. We caught a Starship and now, everything changes
I really do believe this is the dawn of the space age
And truly, I consider it an equivalent moment to the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk.
I hugged ship 42 upon its return
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It was the 15th test flight of the world's biggest and most powerful rocket system.
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The Starship spacecraft that gives SpaceX's rocket system its name orbited Earth 14 times and deployed 26 satellites for Musk's Starlink internet constellation during its 22-hour journey.
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The Starship spacecraft that gives SpaceX's rocket system its name orbited Earth 14 times and deployed 26 satellites for Musk's Starlink internet constellation during its 22-hour journey.
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The Starship spacecraft that gives SpaceX's rocket system its name orbited Earth 14 times and deployed 26 satellites for Musk's Starlink internet constellation during its 22-hour journey.
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Following SpaceX's high-profile stock market debut in June that raised about $85.7 billion, the company is investing heavily in production and launch capabilities.
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During a tour of its million-square-foot (93,000-square-meter) factory at Starbase, SpaceX officials told journalists it now has the capability to produce a spaceship every two weeks and a booster every four weeks.
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