The rocket's Super Heavy first stage booster lifted ... by its four forward grid fins it used to steer itself through the air. "The tower has caught the rocket!!" SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wrote ...

BOCA CHICA BEACH, Texas—SpaceX ... Super Heavy booster, nearly four years ago. "We’re going to try to catch the Super Heavy booster with the launch tower arm, using the grid fins to take the ...

That catch occurred on Oct. 13, during the fifth test flight of SpaceX's Starship megarocket. Starship's huge first-stage booster, known as Super Heavy, came back to Earth about seven minutes ...

The Super Heavy ... booster, just below the grid fins, about seven minutes after liftoff, achieving the desired catch of the booster. Achieving the launch pad return and landing is critical to ...

In SpaceX's fifth test flight of its Starship rocket, the company successfully returned the “Super Heavy” booster to the arms of the launch tower for the first time.

SpaceX engineers worked quickly to assess if the first stage, the Super Heavy booster, had the all-clear to make a return back to the launch pad. Being able to recapture the booster is essential ...

SpaceX made history Sunday on its latest test flight of Starship, managing to both successfully catch the massive rocket’s Super Heavy booster back at the launch site and return Starship to ...

Two giant mechanical arms catching the SpaceX's Super Heavy booster on the first attempt in October 2024. SpaceX It was an astonishing spectacle. A 70-meter-tall SpaceX rocket performing a ...

SpaceX completed its fifth test flight of its Starship spacecraft and its Super Heavy booster rocket today. Among the objectives for the test flight was the return and catch of the Super Heavy ...

To SpaceX, it was a success. It went just the way they had intended − giving the first soft landing of the Super Heavy booster. The goal of the company is to reuse the entire Starship − ...