Starship’s SuperHeavy booster caught after launch first try! Insane

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This just happened. I am in awe.



I'm so happy I watched this live. Insane achievement.

Starship test flight is still going. Absolutely amazing shots of Earth on the livestream:

 
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Just watched it live with my 8year old. She asked me when the aliens are coming, but I was in awe due to this amazing accomplishment. SpaceX wrote history today. Ad astra per asperam!
 
SJRB said:
This just happened. I am in awe.



I'm so happy I watched this live. Insane achievement.

Starship test flight is still going. Absolutely amazing shots of Earth on the livestream:

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Lol I grabbed the whole family down to watch this live, incredible feat of engineering, even the wife and daughter where impressed, it went absolutely faultless, was watching what I thought was a SpaceX stream on YouTube that turned out to be a scam site asking for crypto before switching over to a proper one, when are they gonna attempt a catch of the starship? Flight 7?
 
Amazing feat of engineering. I've been watching their launches since the beginning and they never get old. The booster stage catch was mind blowing.
 
RJMacready73 said:
Lol I grabbed the whole family down to watch this live, incredible feat of engineering, even the wife and daughter where impressed, it went absolutely faultless, was watching what I thought was a SpaceX stream on YouTube that turned out to be a scam site asking for crypto before switching over to a proper one, when are they gonna attempt a catch of the starship? Flight 7?
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It will be awhile yet before they try to catch Starship. It doesn't currently have the hardware on board to do so and I imagine the FAA will want to see multiple successful rentry attempts before they allow them to bring it in over North America.
 
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Good to see people getting in an interest in launches (and landings) again, like in the 60's & 70's.

Great engineering by the SpaceX team.
 
Dr.D00p said:
Yeah but the trouble with all this is that it's too unpredictable and unreliable. The next 5 attempts are just as likely to fail.
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I assume that with the data they gathered today, they will it iterate off today's launch design/parameters and continue to increase reliability. That's the whole point of these tests: to make it predictable and reliable enough to strap humans inside
 

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SpaceX has launched its fifth Starship test flight from Texas and returned the rocket's towering first-stage booster back to land for the first time, achieving a novel recovery method involving large metal arms.


The rocket's Super Heavy first-stage booster lifted off at 7:25 am (12:25 GMT) on Sunday from SpaceX's launch facilities in Boca Chica, Texas, sending the second-stage Starship rocket on a path in space bound for the Indian Ocean west of Australia, where it will attempt atmospheric reentry followed by a water landing.

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T8SC said:
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Good to see people getting in an interest in launches (and landings) again, like in the 60's & 70's.

Great engineering by the SpaceX team.
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I gathered the fam for the James Webb launch as well as these pivotal SpaceX ones, they mighten appreciate the magnitude of what they're seeing but when they're older I'm sure they'll get it
 
RJMacready73 said:
I gathered the fam for the James Webb launch as well as these pivotal SpaceX ones, they mighten appreciate the magnitude of what they're seeing but when they're older I'm sure they'll get it
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Exactly, it feels very much like we're making serious progress now. I know we had probes, the ISS and telescope launches through the 80s, 90s & 00s, but this feels like we're entering a new era after the shuttles were retired. Hopefully we can get beyond Mars in my lifetime.
 
Yeah we're entering the time of a proper space next generation program imo, reusable rockets is a game changer as well as the sheer amount of cargo Starship can take into orbit, it's gonna change the whole landscape, personally I think the whole put people on mars is a waste of time but hey if Elon is willing to burn through all those $$$ to get there it just means the technology for everything else gets perfected, mining asteroids is where the big money is going to be
 
T8SC said:
Exactly, it feels very much like we're making serious progress now. I know we had probes, the ISS and telescope launches through the 80s, 90s & 00s, but this feels like we're entering a new era after the shuttles were retired. Hopefully we can get beyond Mars in my lifetime.
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Always wanted to go to Mars to know what Arnold felt like in Total Recall.
 
I'm happy for rocket launches but I still think their mission architecture for the Artemis program is balls and it's designed to maximize SpaceX launch schedule and not to the benefit of the program. The rest of Artemis is gearing for next year and meanwhile SpaceX haven't even demonstrated TLI capability.
 
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Bitmap Frogs said:
I'm happy for rocket launches but I still think their mission architecture for the Artemis program is balls and it's designed to maximize SpaceX launch schedule and not to the benefit of the program. The rest of Artemis is gearing for next year and meanwhile SpaceX haven't even demonstrated TLI capability.
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I think space x was always going to do it this way (IE their own way), any kludge for Artemis was just a bonus. I think the bigger benefit of spacex in Artemis program is keeping the others on their toes.
 
RJMacready73 said:
Yeah we're entering the time of a proper space next generation program imo, reusable rockets is a game changer as well as the sheer amount of cargo Starship can take into orbit, it's gonna change the whole landscape, personally I think the whole put people on mars is a waste of time but hey if Elon is willing to burn through all those $$$ to get there it just means the technology for everything else gets perfected, mining asteroids is where the big money is going to be
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He is fairly aware that he is gping to be the one locking it in.
 
Say what you will about Elon Musk but can't deny SpaceX makes some dope shit. I wish more Americans cared more about stuff like this.
 
Incredible. While Musk can be off the rails and late on ETAs, blah blah, you cannot deny the output of the companies he invests himself and resources in. Mind boggling good stuff to see.

Also was wifey was cooking a lamb charcoal spit last night and my son was chatting to us and casually points out a hugely bright meteor (in his words). So I had him point ol' SkyView app at it and we just caught the brightest fly by of the International Space Station I have ever seen in my life. Just perfect slightly post sunset timing and the solar panels were lit up like a star cruising across the sky. Beautiful. What a tech/space week it's been.
 
Extremely impressive rocketing. I showed it to my son. This is an amazing bit of rocketing.
 
We're having these landings for almost a decade by now and every single time it still looks straight black magic to me.

Elon can have all the problems in the world but we definitely need some figure like him sponsoring things like that every now and then.
 
I would like to just comment that Elon was the one pushing the team to try the chopsticks capture approach, many of the people at SpaceX thought it wasn't a good idea
 
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