Starship launched from Boca Chica for the fifth time today. Seven minutes after leaving the pad, the booster returned. It lined itself up and hovered in front of Mechazilla (as the tower is affectionately known) and caught. As Elon Musk has said, the best part is no part. By this method, the starship booster does not need landing gear, saving an immense amount of weight.
While the booster landed back at the launch pad, starship demonstrated that the heat shield still needs some tweaking, but it was able to make a pinpoint landing in the Indian Ocean nonetheless.
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Scott Manley provides a summary of the day while the others were live broadcasting the launch. Great stuff from all of them.
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