15-10-2024, 09:39 AM
(14-10-2024, 05:29 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: Watch astonishing moment Starship booster caught in mid-air 'chopsticks manoeuvre'...
SpaceX's Starship has completed its fifth test flight, as Elon Musk pushes ahead in his quest to one day take astronauts to the Moon – maybe even to Mars.During this flight, the SpaceX team attempted something that had never been done before...
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SpaceX's Starship 'chopstick landing' technique just made every Kerbal Space Program enthusiast go green with envy
Watching the latest SpaceX Starship booster return footage though, I felt that familiar itch return again (via BBC News). Elon Musk's pet space project has achieved many remarkable feats in the past few years, but manoeuvring a Super Heavy rocket booster down to a launch pad under its own power, turning upright on its end, and then catching it with a pair of chopsticks in mid-air in a perfect display of tech ballet really strikes as a breakthrough moment for spaceflight.