SpaceX will attempt historic catch of returning Starship booster on Sunday | TechCrunch
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Starship is ready to fly again — and for the first time, SpaceX is going to try to bring the booster back to the launch site to catch it with a pair of

SpaceX will launch the mammoth Starship on Sunday in a launch window that opens at 5 AM PST (7 AM local time) from the company’s Starbase site in southeast Texas. This flight, which will be the fifth in the Starship development program, is coming a little sooner than expected: the Federal Aviation Administration had previously said that it did not anticipate issuing a modified launch license for this test before late November.

  • @[email protected]English
    14•7 days ago

    Wasteful, useless, fix this planet, yadda yadda.

    That’s all a bit true, but this is still cool as fuck.

    • Echo DotEnglish
      9•6 days ago

      It’s also an irrelevant.

      Humanity can do two things at the same time, we always have been able to. So to say we shouldn’t do thing X because thing Y is still a problem is fundamentally misunderstanding how progress works. If you genuinely think along those lines then we probably shouldn’t be making video games either because climate change is still a problem.

      • @[email protected]English
        4•6 days ago

        I say we stop doing home cooking channels. There are enough recipes. That energy needs to go to fighting climate change.