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    SpaceX hat den ersten Booster-Flug der Orbitalklasse erfolgreich abgeschlossen und kehrt zurück.


    SpaceX hat den ersten Booster-Flug der Orbitalklasse erfolgreich abgeschlossen und kehrt zurück.

    https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1845442658397049011

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    2. vee_lan_cleef on

      No matter what you think of Elon, the credit here all goes to the engineers at SpaceX. They are world-class, repeatedly doing things that seem absurd or even impossible, and doing them to a level of perfection no other rocket company in history has done. This truly is a new era of spaceflight.

      edit: Totally forgot about the fact Starship is also coming in for re-entry in about 20 minutes. Will be interesting to see how the fins hold up compared to last time, but considering how well it did with the last flight I don’t have any worries about re-entry.

    5. Adeldor on

      Astonishing! Success on the first try with a plan so audacious! Being old enough to have seen Apollo – and the great night that followed – it’s so heartening to see once again such rapid progress toward true spacefaring being made.

    6. Yepkarma on

      These mf’ers are catching their Eiffel tower sized rockets with metal chopsticks while the SLS it’s both over budget and technologically stuck in the stone ages compared to this thing. Elon or not, give SpaceX all the contracts they want. I mean look at this shit. That’s rad as hell

    7. TheAJGman on

      Holy hell. I thought for sure we’d have a late termination or a partial catch resulting in a fireball.

    8. platypodus on

      It’s insanity today, normalcy in just a few years.

      Truly a historic achievement.

    9. Mhan00 on

      Not only did they do it, it looked easy. I’m still in stunned disbelief.

    10. AffectionateTree8651 on

      SpaceX is going to change this world and many other world with it! We’re going to Mars baby. We’re going to Andromeda. We’re going to the stars!

    11. gham89 on

      I have a true hatred for Elon, but what SpaceX are doing is absolutely incredible and I feel privileged to be able to watch live.

    12. Iwanttolink on

      Insane. We are so back (in space). This is a bigger and better rocket than Saturn 5.

    13. CmdrAirdroid on

      This is the most impressive thing I’ve seen from SpaceX so far, I’m shaking. For a moment it looked like it was gonna hit the tower but it was just the camera angle, this was a huge success.

    14. spaghettilogic38 on

      Knowing they were going to try it didn’t prepare me for seeing it! I’m still shaking. And the joy you could hear from the SpaceX folks on the livestream, my god it’s well earned. Incredible.

    15. Resvrgam2 on

      I don’t know how they make these historic events seem so easy. Great job, SpaceX team.

    16. redstercoolpanda on

      Wonder what caused that fire. It didn’t look like any of the engines failed to me.

    19. PerAsperaAdMars on

      I can’t believe no company has yet repeated the Falcon 9’s achievement of propulsive booster landing. And SpaceX has already taken the next technological step!

    21. rakesh-69 on

      No way, the re-entry and catch both were surreal. I can’t imagine how a whole booster did that. I remember reading about spacex’s first landing for the first time when I was a teenager. And didn’t believe it until I watched the video.

    22. H-K_47 on

      For reference, the SuperHeavy Booster is 71 metres (232 feet) tall, 9 metres (29.5 feet) wide, and weighs 275 tonnes. And they caught it falling out of space (100+ km) with robot arms. Truly one of the craziest things in spaceflight ever.

    23. QP873 on

      Technically this makes Starship currently as reusable as Falcon 9, right? The only thing it haven’t done is a deorbit burn which, as show by the Hera mission, isn’t technically a requirement.

    25. ThorAlex87 on

      My money was on crashing into the arms/tower/pad… Holy crap that went perfect!

    26. fghjconner on

      Absolutely insane. My brain knew logically that if SpaceX thought they could catch it, they probably could, but it wasn’t until seeing the booster in the chopsticks that I really *believed* it was possible.

    27. Raketenelch on

      Holy shit that was insane. What an incredible engineering achievement.

    28. ElWanderer_KSP on

      That was absolutely insane, that it worked first time. I was expecting a big kaboom.

    29. sosaudio on

      I know that took a monumental effort to build, but that looked so easy!! What a time to be alive.

    30. ramxquake on

      I can’t believe this succeeded on the first try. So much that can go wrong and literally everything has to go right. Even translated sideways. The whole idea of a ‘Mechazilla’ catching a giant rocket booster by its grid-fins with chopsticks is ridiculous, some sci-fi nonsense, except it’s real.

    31. scottkuma on

      I was squeeeeeeing like a little girl! I’m still sitting here with my mouth agape!

    32. activedusk on

      I was almost certain first try would be a dud, it looked good. Any major damage to the tower when it spewed flames on it?

    34. reen444 on

      I also had goosebumps! That was so intense. Now the booster is hanging there like nothing ever happened.

    35. Fit-Ad-849 on

      Someone get that team some Champaign / or whatever the hell they want !!!

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