SpaceX has recovered the booster like that more than twenty times already.
No, not like this. This is the first time this gigantic booster has gone up and been caught.
The plan is, from what we see now, the booster hanging from the chopsticks, to lower it back to the pad, have the Starship land, pick that up, stack it, do a preflight, refuel and launch it again, all within a matter of hours.
There has been nothing done on this scale in history.
This is Starship not Falcon....heavy 33 engine booster caught on the launch tower. Starship currently in orbit.
Video of the “catch” here:
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1845442658397049011
This thing is bigger and more massive than the Apollo rockets. What we have seen is absolutely unprecedented.
Not like this. 350+ landings of Falcon 9, this is the super heavy booster, unlike anything that has flown before. Makes Saturn5 look like an Estes rocket.
No...this is the ‘BIG ONE’. It’s a massive rocket, the rest have been much smaller and landing on boats in the ocean. This is absolutely unreal - a MASSIVE rocket returning and be maneuvered to ‘chopstick hangers’ has never been done. The last launch of this rocket destroyed the launchpad and also had several Raptor engines fail to operate, which resulted in a catastrophic failure. Here you could see all the Raptor engines working and everything went flawlessly!!
Not like that they haven’t.