The company is also celebrating the third-ever catch of its Super Heavy booster, equipped with 33 Raptor engines.

SpaceX intends to captures Starship's Super Heavy booster with mechanical arms known as "chopsticks." See an animation of a catch and recent footage from tests. Credit: Space.com | animation & footage ...

Seven minutes later, Starship's huge first-stage booster, known as Super Heavy, returned to Starbase for a dramatic catch by the launch tower's "chopstick" arms. It was the third time that SpaceX ...

There have even been mid-air catches of the Super Heavy booster, thanks to the launch tower's "chopstick arms". IFT-7 did see a successful booster catch, but SpaceX lost communications with Ship ...

SpaceX is gearing up for another thrilling Starship test. The Flight 8 mission will attempt to catch the Super Heavy booster using giant metal arms. This ambitious launch is scheduled for 6 March ...

After a failed mission in January, SpaceX on Thursday launched its ... One of the goals of the flight was to catch the Super Heavy booster using the chopsticks on the launch tower, which was ...

Flight 8's goals will be similar to those of Flight 7, SpaceX has said. The company will attempt another Super Heavy chopsticks catch, and Ship will attempt to deploy four dummy Starlink ...

A déjà vu moment took place at SpaceX's Starbase Boca Chica facility ... and it was able to nail its first attempt to catch the Super Heavy Booster using Mechazilla's chopstick-like arms.

SpaceX launched the eighth test of its Starship rocket on Thursday, successfully conducting and completing the "catch" of the Super Heavy booster. However, the Starship broke apart less than ten ...