Before the ship loss, the company successfully demonstrated how its massive mechanical arms dubbed “chopsticks” caught the rocket booster at the launch pad for the second time ever.

For the second time, SpaceX used giant mechanical arms to catch its Starship rocket back at the pad minutes after liftoff Thursday. At the same time, the empty ... over the launch pad before ...

Musk wrote. The test wasn't a total botch, though. SpaceX managed to successfully complete the rocket booster return and catch at the launch pad for the second time ever. The booster was caught with ...

SpaceX Loses Spacecraft After Catching Rocket Booster at the Launch Pad in Latest Starship Test SpaceX launched its Starship rocket on its latest test flight Thursday, but the spacecraft was ...

Upcoming SpaceX, Blue Origin, NASA rocket launch schedule in Florida "I think having a hazy sky like this worked to portray some of the colors off the background," said Parish as he looked upon the ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base near Lompoc could be seen in the skies over Santa Cruz Monday evening. The company launched 23 Starlink satellites from Pad 4E at ...

Rocket Lab has three launch pads at two launch sites, including two launch pads at a private orbital launch site located in New Zealand and a third launch pad in Virginia.

A minute earlier, SpaceX used the launch tower’s giant mechanical arms to catch the returning booster, a feat achieved only once before. The descending booster hovered over the launch pad before ...

SpaceX launched its Starship rocket ... launch tower's giant mechanical arms to catch the returning booster, a feat achieved only once before. The descending booster hovered over the launch pad ...

The descending booster hovered over the launch pad before being gripped by a pair of mechanical arms dubbed chopsticks. The 400-foot (123-meter) rocket thundered away in late afternoon from Boca ...

BOCA CHICA, Texas (ValleyCentral) — SpaceX launched its Starship rocket ... back at the pad minutes after liftoff from Texas. The descending booster hovered over the launch pad before being ...