{"id":133846,"date":"2022-01-10T10:22:59","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T18:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/elon-musk-shared-the-drone-footage-of-starships-launch-and-catch-tower"},"modified":"2022-01-10T10:22:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T18:22:59","slug":"elon-musk-shared-the-drone-footage-of-starships-launch-and-catch-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/elon-musk-shared-the-drone-footage-of-starships-launch-and-catch-tower","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Shared the Drone Footage of Starship\u2019s Launch and Catch Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-shared-the-drone-footage-of-starships-launch-and-catch-tower.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But the catch function still needs some work.<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk has posted the first glimpse of the company\u2019s famous tower that will not only launch SpaceX\u2019s next rocket but also help in catching it as it returns back to Earth. He shared the drone footage of the tower with his followers on Twitter on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX\u2019s Starship is probably one of the company\u2019s riskiest projects. While the success of the rocket can send humans to the Moon and beyond, its failure or even delays in its deployment might cause the company to go into bankruptcy. As Musk had told employees last year, Starship must get firing and launch commercial missions by 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Helping it launch frequently is a nifty design trick that SpaceX is attempting and the launch and catch tower is critical to executing it. Unlike the Falcon 9 rockets that SpaceX reuses by landing it back on Earth, Starship\u2019s Heavy Booster rocket does not have landing legs.<\/p>\n<p>Full Story:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But the catch function still needs some work. Elon Musk has posted the first glimpse of the company\u2019s famous tower that will not only launch SpaceX\u2019s next rocket but also help in catching it as it returns back to Earth. He shared the drone footage of the tower with his followers on Twitter on Sunday. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}