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SpaceX Starship returns to landing pad from orbit, acing test for reusable rockets
STARBASE: SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft on Saturday returned from a 22-hour voyage in orbit and descended for the first time into the grasp of giant mechanical arms at the Texas tower it was launched from a day earlier, a catch that is essential to the company’s decade-long effort to develop a fully reusable rocket. The 171-foot-tall (52-meter) Starship fell out of thick clouds over SpaceX’s Starbase launch site, reignited engines to flip itself vertical and slowly descended into the tower’s “Mechazilla” arms, engines still roaring. Charred from the blazing heat of its return from space, the ...
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