SpaceX chief Elon Musk has revealed that an upcoming Starship flight will attempt to catch not only the Super Heavy booster, but the Starship spacecraft, too.
Catching the rocket meant that it did not need a landing gear, said Dr Peter Shaw, senior lecturer in astronautics at Kingston University, cutting the overall mass of the rocket. “If you can put more ...
Getting back to Elon Musk, the reason he cares about all this is he wants to speed up the process of reusing these boosters, because he has in mind multiple launches in 2026, when Earth and Mars are ...