Cape Canaveral (Florida, USA), 15 Nov. (LaPresse) – SpaceX’s Starship made a triumphant return to Earth, being caught mid-air by enormous mechanical arms at the very spot from which it had launched 22 hours earlier. It was the grand finale that Elon Musk and his team had hoped to achieve: the first-ever capture of a Starship returning from space. However, with the first-stage booster exploding shortly after Friday’s launch from Texas, the company was unable to complete the planned dual recovery. The debris remained in the Gulf of Mexico, marked out by buoys, whilst the stainless-steel spacecraft, with its distinctive bullet-like shape, descended vertically onto the launch pad. The spectacular catch, worthy of a science-fiction film, helped take the focus off the failed booster recovery. “Can you believe it?” exclaimed Dan Huot, a SpaceX commentator.
Space: Success for SpaceX – Starship’s re-entry a success
Cape Canaveral (Florida, USA), 15 Nov. (LaPresse) – SpaceX’s Starship made a triumphant return to Earth, being caught mid-air by enormous mechanical arms at the very spot from which it had launched 22 hours earlier. It was the grand finale that Elon Musk and his team had hoped to achieve: the first-ever capture of a Starship returning from space. However, with the first-stage booster exploding shortly after Friday’s launch from Texas, the company was unable to complete the planned dual recovery. The debris remained in the Gulf of Mexico, marked out by buoys, whilst the stainless-steel spacecraft, with its distinctive bullet-like shape, descended vertically onto the launch pad. The spectacular catch, worthy of a science-fiction film, helped take the focus off the failed booster recovery. “Can you believe it?” exclaimed Dan Huot, a SpaceX commentator.