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Elon Musk faces doubts about whether he can still deliver. Starship stuck the landing.

SpaceX achieved a world first by returning its Starship rocket booster to its launch site, a reminder that Elon Musk can prove the doubters wrong.

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SpaceX plans to catch Starship upper stage with 'chopsticks' in early 2025, Elon Musk says

SpaceX just caught the giant first-stage booster of its Starship megarocket — and it plans to do the same with the vehicle's upper stage soon.

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Elon Musk's Starship booster captured in world first

Elon Musk’s Starship rocket has completed a world first after part of it was captured on its return to the launch pad. The SpaceX vehicle's lower half manoeuvred back beside its launch tower where it was caught in a giant pair of mechanical arms, as part of its fifth test flight.

SpaceX’s launch this weekend will reshape space industry

Business Insider · 1d

Why SpaceX's latest Starship launch was such a huge deal for space travel

Elon Musk stands victorious in his ambitious Starship plans now that SpaceX caught the Super Heavy booster with giant chopsticks as it fell to Earth.

Fortune on MSN · 22h

SpaceX’s launch this weekend will reshape the space industry

I got goosebumps as I watched the SpaceX Starship booster slide into place, caught by the robotic arms of the launch tower. It was the first time SpaceX had attempted to land its Starship booster like this—an engineering feat initially suggested by Elon Musk that we only just learned was truly possible on Sunday.

Scientific American · 1d

SpaceX Catches a Falling Starship—a First in Spaceflight History

SpaceX’s fifth Starship flight test concluded with mechanical arms snatching the descending rocket booster out of the air

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Relive SpaceX's epic Starship launch (and rocket catch) in these jawdropping photos and video

The Starship upper stage — known as Starship, or simply Ship — did a suborbital space cruise for about an hour before splashing down in the Indian Ocean as planned. The newest photos from SpaceX were ...

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Elon Musk jubilant as SpaceX Starship makes flawless flight, splash-down — and a first-ever ‘Mechazilla’ booster recovery

Incredible photos showed Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship perform its breakthrough “belly flop” maneuver as it splashed down in ...

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Elon Musk Says Next-Gen Starlink Satellites Will Be so Huge They’ll Need to be Launched With Starship

Elon Musk is now bragging that the next generation of Starlink internet satellites are going to be way larger than previous ...

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Elon Musk is trying to juggle business and politics. It's not going well.

Musk is preparing to give a series of talks in Pennsylvania to help elect Donald Trump. Meanwhile, he's still running Tesla ...

A small robotics company says Elon Musk's 'Robovan' and 'Starship' are great names — except it got trademarks for them first

The robotics company Starship Technologies filed trademarks for both "Starship" and "Robovan" before SpaceX and Tesla did, ...

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In an engineering feat, mechanical SpaceX arms catch Starship rocket booster back at the launch pad

SpaceX has pulled off the boldest test flight yet of its enormous Starship rocket. Elon Musk's company caught the returning ...

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Starship launch: How to watch SpaceX test fly megarocket from Starbase in Texas

SpaceX is moving forward with plans to undergo the latest test flight of its Starship megarocket that will in the years ahead ...

Elon Musk’s feat of engineering

The heavy rocket is central to Nasa’s plans to return astronauts to the Moon, and to Musk’s own vision of colonising Mars. In a typically stretched target, Musk announced on his X site last month that ...

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