Early on the morning of October 13 (local time), SpaceX launched the giant Starship rocket from the Starbase site in South Texas, USA. After a short journey into space, the 50m high upper stage landed in the Indian Ocean after orbiting the Earth as planned.
Elon Musk proudly shared on social network X and called this "a big step forward in creating multi-planetary life".
Accordingly, in its 5th test, SpaceX made history when it successfully recovered the reusable Super Heavy booster stage. It separated from the Starship and slowly fell vertically back to the launch pad. Previously, in previous tests, the booster stages were either thrown into the water or damaged, but this time the company used giant mechanical arms called mechazilla and successfully grabbed it.
SpaceX's feat is considered incredible. Capturing the booster stage is crucial to Starship's reusable design.
This unprecedented approach has saved the company hundreds of millions of dollars. Musk's startup has signed a contract with NASA to carry out ambitious Artemis missions.
The Starship launch system is known to be 121m tall and capable of carrying up to 100 people. With the latest flight, SpaceX has completed both the goals of successfully capturing the rocket booster and the upper stage splashing down after entering space.
The company will conduct more testing as it prepares to fulfill its contract with NASA, as well as for crewed missions to the Moon and eventually Mars.
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