SpaceX will try historic 'chopsticks' catch of Starship upper stage today: Watch it live
SpaceX plans to catch the upper stage of its Starship megarocket at the launch pad today (Nov. 14), and you can watch the unprecedented action live.
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SpaceX plans to catch the upper stage of its Starship megarocket for the first time ever today (Nov. 14), and you can watch the action live.
Starship launched on its 15th test flight on Friday evening (Nov. 13), rising into the sky from SpaceX's Starbase site in South Texas. The mission plan called for bringing both of the vehicle's stages back to Starbase and catching them with the launch tower's "chopstick" arms — an unprecedented total recovery of an orbital rocket.
That didn't happen, however; SpaceX diverted Starship's Super Heavy booster to a controlled splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico 6.5 minutes after launch, for reasons that remain unclear. But a catch of the Ship upper stage is still on the table, and that would be historic in itself: SpaceX has never tried it before.
The Ship catch is scheduled to occur today at around 4:20 p.m. EST (2120 GMT; 3:20 p.m. local Texas time) — roughly 22.5 hours after Flight 15 lifted off. You can watch it live here at Space.com.
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