{"id":192100,"date":"2024-06-30T16:22:27","date_gmt":"2024-06-30T21:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/video-spacex-testing-chopsticks-to-catch-super-heavy-rocket-falling-from-space"},"modified":"2024-06-30T16:22:27","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T21:22:27","slug":"video-spacex-testing-chopsticks-to-catch-super-heavy-rocket-falling-from-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/video-spacex-testing-chopsticks-to-catch-super-heavy-rocket-falling-from-space","title":{"rendered":"Video: SpaceX testing chopsticks to catch Super Heavy rocket falling from space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/video-spacex-testing-chopsticks-to-catch-super-heavy-rocket-falling-from-space2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The ambitious plan involves catching the falling Super Heavy boosters using the launch tower\u2019s \u201cchopstick\u201d arms. This innovative approach aims to revolutionise rocket recovery and enhance the reusability of the company\u2019s Starship system.<\/p>\n<p>Recent footage shared by SpaceX showcases tests of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/science\/story\/slow-motion-video-shows-what-it-takes-to-launch-5000-ton-starship-2550340-2024-06-07\" target=\"_blank\">chopstick mechanism at their Starbase facility in Texas<\/a>. The company has been observed clamping the tower arms around a portion of a Super Heavy booster to evaluate the system\u2019s parameters.<\/p>\n<p>This testing is crucial for verifying the forces the chopsticks will need to withstand during an actual catch attempt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ambitious plan involves catching the falling Super Heavy boosters using the launch tower\u2019s \u201cchopstick\u201d arms. This innovative approach aims to revolutionise rocket recovery and enhance the reusability of the company\u2019s Starship system. Recent footage shared by SpaceX showcases tests of the chopstick mechanism at their Starbase facility in Texas. The company has been observed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192100","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}