SpaceX rocket lands ‘gently’ in Gulf of Mexico, company says
No… the presence of Donald Trump finally brought a charm to Elon Musk, with SpaceX’s Starship “gently” landing, according to the company, in the Gulf of Mexico.
President Trump and Elon Musk at Starbase this moment, awaiting Starship Flight 6.
We are so back! 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/wzeNWly3pC
— SMX 🇺🇸 (@iam_smx) November 19, 2024
SpaceX failed to repeat, under the watchful eye of the new US president, the Starship test flight that on October 13 managed to “catch” the booster rocket on the launch pad with mechanical arms (the so-called “chopsticks”, i.e. “Chinese sticks” ).
Successful ocean landing of Starship!
We will do one more ocean landing of the ship. If that goes well, then SpaceX will attempt to catch the ship with the tower. https://t.co/osFud7XXPo
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 20, 2024
Donald Trump along with the founder and CEO of SpaceX were on Tuesday at the SpaceX launch pad in Texas and watched the rocket launch.
The Super Heavy rocket launcher washed ashore in the Gulf of Mexico while the Starship remained in orbit for about an hour before plunging into the Indian Ocean off the northern coast of Australia.
Starship preparing to splash down in the Indian Ocean pic.twitter.com/EN9jibr07l
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) November 19, 2024
Live views of Earth from Starship pic.twitter.com/3rgsHSj2km
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) November 19, 2024
Super Heavy initiates its landing burn and gently splashes down in the Gulf of Mexico pic.twitter.com/BZ3Az4GssC
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) November 19, 2024
With data and flight learnings as our primary payload, Starship’s sixth flight test once again delivered → https://t.co/oIFc3u9laE pic.twitter.com/O6ZKThQRr6
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) November 20, 2024
Watch Starship’s sixth flight test https://t.co/acpdO2brbP
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) November 16, 2024
Video of previous successful test
Mechazilla has caught the Super Heavy booster! pic.twitter.com/6R5YatSVJX
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) October 13, 2024
Source :Skai
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