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.
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 on ... back at the pad minutes after liftoff from Texas. The descending booster hovered over the launch pad before being ...