One of the goals of this ambitious test flight was to catch Starship's giant first-stage booster, known as Super Heavy, back at Starbase's launch tower, using the structure's "chopstick" arms.
Currently, the Falcon 9 can take 60 of the micro-satellites ... We don't know yet if this application would require the Super Heavy first stage. If it does, that would limit the locations SpaceX ...
Like the Falcon 9's first stage ... For the third flight in a row, SpaceX planned an attempt to "catch" the Super Heavy first stage after it propelled the Starship out of the lower atmosphere ...
On that mission, a Falcon 9 rocket sent 27 Starlink broadband ... That mission featured a dramatic catch of Starship's Super Heavy first stage by the "chopstick" arms of its launch tower at ...
SpaceX launched 21 of its Starlink internet satellites early Jan. 21, five days after a test flight of the company's Starship megarocket ended in an explosion.
The only other US company that seems close to achieving rocket reuse is Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, which has designed the first ... new upper stages for each Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy flight.