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 rocket thundered away in late afternoon from Boca Chica near ...

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 ...

The descending booster hovered over the launch pad before being gripped by the pair of arms dubbed chopsticks. SpaceX's mega rocket Starship booster returns to the launch pad during a test flight ...

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 ...