Catching a rocket

[stevebrooks]

Ok, now I am officially impressed!

[Wrenn]

Probably obvious but just in case, thats a CGI render of what they are intending to do in the future with Starship. Their first launches will dump both vehicles in the ocean, assuming they dont blow up again. Once they demonstrate succesful launch/ocean landings they might get to do the catch.

[stevebrooks]

Well SpaceX got Starship to orbit on the second try, the super heavy booster didn't make it through turnover and splashdown, disassembling itself shortly after turnover, but this is the first hot separation they have done so that's probably not surprising.

[stevebrooks]

Update on that, it's up there, but they don't know where exactly, lol. After losing contact it's quite likely the Starship self destructed due to....well...loneliness? No seriously, it may have self destructed, but nobody knows, it was programmed to do that if it left the pre-determined course, so it's likely gone, nonetheless they did get it up there, so each launch is seeing better results as they iron out the problems.

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/s ... rcna125827