{"id":139944,"date":"2024-10-14T22:20:33","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T12:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/spacex-catches-starship-booster\/"},"modified":"2024-10-14T22:20:33","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T12:20:33","slug":"spacex-catches-starship-booster-in-historic-flight-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=139944","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Catches Starship Booster In Historic Flight Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58643\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/spacex\/\"  >SpaceX&#8217;s<\/a><\/span> new Starship just completed its fifth             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"257981\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/test-flight\/\"  >test flight<\/a><\/span>, and this time, it accomplished a world-firstthe Super Heavy booster rocket was &#8216;caught&#8217; by giant mechanical arms as it was returned to its launch pad.         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2032079\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-space-force-spacex-launches-3rd-falcon-9-rocket-spy-satellites-us-national-reconnaissance-office\/\" >SpaceX currently retrieves its reusable Falcon 9 boosters<\/a><\/span> by landing them on the drone ship &#8220;<em>Of Course I Still Love You<\/em>.&#8221; Meanwhile, the Starship vehicle successfully made a controlled splash in the Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a world first, the Starship&#8217;s 250-ton booster was caught as it returned to its platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,412,10232,2846],"tags":[315],"class_list":["post-139944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-military","category-relaunch","category-spacex","tag-space"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139945,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139944\/revisions\/139945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}