LAUNCH AND RETURN — Two-frame stack of Starship Flight 5 ascending from Starbase, Texas, and Super Heavy returning to be caught by the tower! JUST INCREDIBLE!
i’m watching a flawless livestream of a 10.5tonne SpaceX rocket travel at 25,000kmph around earth, with a rocket booster being successfully ‘caught’ in its launch pad arms back on earth.
all this whilst I play a game hindered with bugs and issues
different levels
TOTAL SUCCESS — Starship Flight 5 has achieved all milestones with a Super Heavy tower catch and a successful, on-target splashdown landing of the Starship upper stage!
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STARSHIP TAKES FLIGHT AND SUPER HEAVY IS CAUGHT — SpaceX successfully launched Starship for its fifth flight this morning, completing a remarkable feat in spaceflight history as the rocket’s Super Heavy booster returned to Starbase for the first-ever tower catch and landing!
Watching the skyscraper-sized starship fly is already crazy enough, but watching the 230’ booster be caught by a ~500’ robot is going to be the fakest-looking real thing that’s ever happened.
If they pull this off I can’t overstate how much it will accelerate human spaceflight .
Rough scale for what we are hopefully in for.
Superheavy coming in for landing, compared to an A380 (biggest passsenger jet ever), an American football field, and a 2 story large house.