SpaceX intends to captures Starship's Super Heavy booster with mechanical arms known as "chopsticks." See an animation of a catch and recent footage from tests. Credit: Space.com | animation & footage ...

SpaceX uses mechanical arms to catch Starship's booster as it returns to the launch pad. This approach should allow engineers to rapidly reuse Super Heavy boosters. Eventually, SpaceX will do the ...

SpaceX previously used Super Heavy Booster 14 and was able to catch it. They have now rolled Booster 14 back out to the ...

The company performed a static-fire test today (April 3) at its Starbase site in South Texas, briefly igniting a Super Heavy's 33 Raptor engines while the giant booster remained anchored to the ...

"This booster previously launched and returned ... which lifted off on March 6 — another chopsticks catch of Super Heavy, another detonation above the Atlantic Ocean for the upper stage.

SpaceX in 2024 pulled off an unprecedented booster catch, returning Super Heavy to the launchpad unscathed following a test flight. But NASA by the end of the year expects Starship to fly to the ...

3:55 SpaceX lands Super Heavy booster, but loses Starship ... the second time that SpaceX has been able to return and catch the stage booster using the launch tower. The cause was excess fuel ...

This test includes enhancements to the Super Heavy booster and Mechazilla arms for a critical booster catch attempt. The flight will last 66 minutes, with a simulated Starlink satellite deployment ...

The report stated, “Seven minutes later, Starship’s huge first-stage booster, known as Super Heavy, returned to Starbase for a dramatic catch by the launch tower’s ‘chopstick’ arms.” SpaceX’s Flight 8 ...