SpaceX achieves first Starship spacecraft tower catch following milestone 14-orbit Starlink mission

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The spacecraft reignited three engines to flip itself into a vertical position and steer itself toward the launch tower, where two mechanical "chopstick" arms clasped onto the craft as it hovered.

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 Starship fell out of thick clouds over SpaceX's Starbase launch site, reignited its engines to flip itself vertical, and slowly descended into the tower's "Mechazilla" arms, engines still roaring.

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