Unlike last month’s success, the booster was directed to a splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico.

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SpaceX Launches Giant Starship Rocket, But Aborts Attempt to Catch Booster with Mechanical Arms

SpaceX on Tuesday launched another Starship rocket, but passed up catching the booster with giant mechanical arms.Unlike last month's success, the booster was directed to a splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico. The catch was called off just four minutes

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SpaceX launches Starship rocket but aborts booster catch attempt

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SpaceX on Tuesday launched another Starship rocket, but passed up catching the booster with giant mechanical arms. Unlike last month’s success, the booster was directed to a splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico. The catch was called off just four minutes into the test flight from Texas for unspecified reasons, and the booster hit the water three minutes later. Not all of the criteria for a booster catch was met and so the flight director did not com…

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SpaceX launches giant Starship rocket, but aborts attempt to catch booster with mechanical arms - Tech and Science Post

While it did not recreate the historic Super Heavy booster catch it pulled off last time, SpaceX continued to push the envelope during the sixth test flight of its Starship spacecraft. The largest and most powerful rocket ever built lifted off from SpaceX’s Starbase launchpad in Texas on Tuesday evening, Super Heavy’s 33 Raptor engines creating aContinue reading "SpaceX Starship Flight 6: No booster catch, but still pushing the envelope" The pos…

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SpaceX Starship Flight 6: No booster catch, but still pushing the envelope

SpaceX launched Starship on its sixth flight test yesterday but called off its Super Heavy booster catch attempt back at the pad, instead diverting the 233-ft-tall vehicle to a controlled water splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico.  In a post-launch recap, SpaceX said the abort was due to issues with the pad’s launch and catch tower, not the rocket.  The launch came just 37 days after the last flight when SpaceX made history by catching a returning …

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SpaceX Launches Starship Flight 6, Forgoes a Booster Catch Attempt

The biggest and most powerful rocket ever built now has a half-dozen launches under its belt. SpaceX‘s 400-foot-tall (122 meters) Starship megarocket lifted off for the sixth time ever today (Nov. 19), rising off the orbital launch mount at the company’s Starbase site in South Texas at 5:00 p.m. EST (2200 GMT; 4:00 p.m. local […]

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SpaceX on Tuesday launched another Starship rocket, but passed up catching the booster with giant mechanical arms. Unlike last month’s success, the booster was directed to a splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico. The catch was called off just four minutes into the test flight from Texas for unspecified reasons, and the booster hit the […] The post SpaceX launches Starship rocket, passes on catching it with mechanical arms appeared first on Political …

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SpaceX launches Starship rocket, passes on catching it with mechanical arms - Political Signal

While it did not recreate the historic Super Heavy booster catch it pulled off last time, SpaceX continued to push the envelope during the sixth test flight of its Starship spacecraft. The largest and most powerful rocket ever built lifted off from SpaceX’s Starbase launchpad in Texas on Tuesday evening, Super Heavy’s 33 Raptor engines creating a ball of flame in its wake. For the first time, Starship reignited one of its six Raptors in orbit, d…

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SpaceX Starship Flight 6: No Booster Catch But Continues to Push the Envelope

SpaceX on Tuesday launched another Starship rocket, but passed up catching the booster with giant mechanical arms.

SpaceX Launches Giant Starship Rocket, But Aborts Attempt to Catch Booster with Mechanical Arms

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