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Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]
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Re: Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]
#12Stage 1 sucessfully caught. That was pretty incredible. I remember watching the Falcony Heavy launch when both boosters landed in sync. It's hanging pretty high in the air, I assume so the engines do less damage to the pad. One wonders how they're going to get it down. Do the chopsticks lower on the tower?
Yes, the chopsticks are attached to one giant lift.
Re: Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]
#13And here I thought nothing would top the double landing view from Falcon Heavy...
Re: Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]
#14I'm just so happy to see this level of progress. This another big step for opening up space. To think that one day this will be considered normal. 150 Metric tons sent on a fully reusable rocket.
Thats like a 747 to space.
Re: Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]
#15Stage 1 sucessfully caught. That was pretty incredible. I remember watching the Falcony Heavy launch when both boosters landed in sync. It's hanging pretty high in the air, I assume so the engines do less damage to the pad. One wonders how they're going to get it down. Do the chopsticks lower on the tower?
Yes, the chopsticks lower and raise. They will lower the tower onto a transport vehicle and send it back to the bay for examination, and then possible reflight.
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#16That was crazy, 50% of me thought as it was coming in, especially as it pitched towards the tower, "they've overcompensated and are going to bring the whole tower down" but they absolutely nailed it.
Re: Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]
#17Video of the catch
> Mechazilla has caught the Super Heavy booster!
Re: Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]
#18Damn what a time to be alive! Amazing
Re: Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]
#19It's difficult to overstate how important the milestone of catching the booster is. Now we have a reusable rocket an order of magnitude larger than anything we've had before, and the cost of kg to orbit just nosedived.
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#20That was soooo good!