Watch SpaceX successfully execute the first ‘chopstick’ catch of Starship

After aborting a planned catch of Starship Flight 15's booster, SpaceX successfully captured Starship with its "Mechazilla" motorboat and drawback operation for the archetypal time. The institution has performed 'chopstick' catches of its boosters before, but this is the archetypal clip the maneuver has successfully been executed connected the Starship conveyance itself.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said during the company's third-quarter net call that "success is not guaranteed connected these archetypal flights, but I'd accidental it's much apt than not that this succeeds adjacent flight." While not a implicit success, successful that the institution was incapable to retrieve the full motorboat vehicle, it sti …

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