{"id":57849,"date":"2024-10-14T03:11:36","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T03:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2024\/10\/14\/spacex-catches-descending-super-heavy-booster-the-register\/"},"modified":"2024-10-14T03:13:05","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T03:13:05","slug":"spacex-catches-descending-super-heavy-booster-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2024\/10\/14\/spacex-catches-descending-super-heavy-booster-the-register\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX catches descending Super Heavy Booster \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

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SpaceX’s engineers carried out two important feats on Saturday: catching Starship’s Tremendous Heavy Booster with mechanical arms on the rocket’s launch tower, and attaining a pinpoint touchdown of Starship itself within the Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n

The flight was the fifth<\/a> for SpaceX’s monster rocket, which contains the Tremendous Heavy Booster and the payload-carrying Starship itself. It got here a day after the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a license modification authorizing the launch from SpaceX’s facility in Boca Chica, Texas.<\/p>\n

The license approved a mission that might see Starship attain sub-orbital altitude, earlier than re-entering and making a water touchdown within the Indian Ocean, and the catch try by arms dubbed Mechazilla on the launch tower. It additionally included exceptions if issues did not go effectively \u2013 comparable to Starship failing to deal with the warmth of re-entry, beneath which circumstance SpaceX was allowed to conduct an uncontrolled touchdown offered the FAA was notified first.<\/p>\n

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