SpaceX, Starship and Super Heavy

Animation Of SpaceX 'Chopsticks' To Catch Starship's Super Heavy Booster
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
SpaceX loses Starship rocket stage again, but catches giant Super Heavy booster during Flight 8 launch (video)
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 has demonstrated this jaw-dropping technique.
SpaceX’s massive starship explodes 10 minutes into flight — but completes third ‘catch’ of Super Heavy booster
The company is also celebrating the third-ever catch of its Super Heavy booster, equipped with 33 Raptor engines.
Another SpaceX Starship lost during test flight despite successful booster catch
“After completing the required and comprehensive safety review, the FAA determined the SpaceX Starship vehicle can return to flight operations while the investigation into the Jan. 16 Starship Flight 7 mishap remains open,” the FAA stated. “The FAA is overseeing the SpaceX-led investigation.”
Timeline of SpaceX Starship flight tests—and what happened
SpaceX’s Starship is undergoing a series of test flights to prepare for deep-space missions. With eight flights now completed, find out how each test has unfolded.
FAA investigating SpaceX Starship Flight 8 explosion that disrupted commercial flights
SpaceX's latest Starship to attempt to reach space exploded nine minutes after its launch this week, leaving a trail of debris in its wake. Airports in Florida were forced to halt flights as the threat from impacts extended south to the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands.
Debris Rains Down After SpaceX Starship Test Flight
While the Starship’s booster successfully returned to the launchpad, the upper-stage spacecraft failed in space and lost several engines and attitude control on March 6, tumbling in space.
SpaceX Starship megarocket upper stage lost again during 8th test flight; booster catch is successful
SpaceX on Thursday afternoon launched its eighth suborbital flight test of its fully integrated Starship rocket, after a failed January test, at Starbase in Boca Chica Beach, Texas.
SpaceX successfully launches Starship 8 and lands reusable Super Heavy booster in 8th test flight
The 400-foot-tall Starship took off from SpaceX’s Starbase facility near Boca Chica Beach, in Texas, with the updated vessel expected to zoom across the Gulf of America and release dummy satellites as practice before a splash down in the Indian Ocean.
MSNBC hosts mock Elon Musk after SpaceX mishap: 'Go back to your day job'
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SpaceX rocket flight test goes very wrong, prompts investigation
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SpaceX fumbles the Starship launch, but eventually landed the catch for a hat-trick
SpaceX has wrapped up Flight 8 of Starship, the world's largest and most powerful rocket, with the flight having its ...
Elon Musk's Starship blew up again — and our prospects of mining the moon hang in the balance
Space companies need Starship's super-heavy heft to fly human habitats and mining equipment to the moon. The rocket just ...