Elon Musk’s SpaceX accomplished a momentous technical feat early on Sunday morning by catching a booster rocket with mechanical arms on its return from a test flight.
At dawn on the Texas coast, SpaceX launched an unmanned Starship rocket with its “super heavy booster”. After a brief flight into the atmosphere, the booster broke away from the Starship and descended vertically, braking its drop with engine blasts.
The booster fell directly back to the launch pad where it was caught by the tower’s metal arms — referred to as “chopsticks” — in a roar of smoke and fire.
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