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Elon Musk explains the “four R’s” that will make life multiplanetary: Rapidly Reusable Reliable Rockets. The breakthrough is catching the Super Heavy booster with giant mechanical “chopsticks” (Mechazilla arms). No landing legs = no time wasted on leg deployment, pickup, leg retraction, or slow transport. The same tower that...

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🇺🇸 ELON: STARSHIP TO BE CAUGHT MID-AIR BY TOWER THIS YEAR SpaceX aims to catch Starship using the launch tower’s giant arms—just like it already does with the Super Heavy booster. If successful, it would mark a huge leap toward rapid reusability. No ocean landings, no recovery ships—just launch, catch, refuel, repeat. Elon: “Later this year, if fate smiles upon SpaceX, the ship will be caught by the tower, just like the booster.” Reusable Starship is essential for building a sustainable route to Mars. Source: Elon Musk, SpaceX
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🇺🇸 ELON: STARSHIP TO BE CAUGHT MID-AIR BY TOWER THIS YEAR SpaceX aims to catch Starship using the launch tower’s giant arms—just like it already does with the Super Heavy booster. If successful, it would mark a huge leap toward rapid reusability. No ocean landings, no recovery ships—just launch, catch, refuel, repeat. Elon: “Later this year, if fate smiles upon SpaceX, the ship will be caught by the tower, just like the booster.” Reusable Starship is essential for building a sustainable route to Mars. Source: Elon Musk, SpaceX

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ELON: I THINK WE’LL ACHIEVE FULL AND RAPID REUSABILITY OF STARSHIP IN 2026 “We're pretty close to being able to rapidly reuse the booster for Starship. It comes back and gets caught by the arms, and then the arms place it back in the launch mount. We still have a little bit of engine damage and a little bit of heat shield damage. There are tweaks that are needed. But we're pretty close to achieving full and rapid reusability of the booster. For the ship, I think we'll achieve reusability this year, and I think we'll achieve rapid reusability of the whole stack, ship and booster next year. This is the fundamental breakthrough required for life to become multiplanetary.” Source: The Joe Rogan Experience, February 28, 2025, Elon Musk , Joe Rogan
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ELON: I THINK WE’LL ACHIEVE FULL AND RAPID REUSABILITY OF STARSHIP IN 2026 “We're pretty close to being able to rapidly reuse the booster for Starship. It comes back and gets caught by the arms, and then the arms place it back in the launch mount. We still have a little bit of engine damage and a little bit of heat shield damage. There are tweaks that are needed. But we're pretty close to achieving full and rapid reusability of the booster. For the ship, I think we'll achieve reusability this year, and I think we'll achieve rapid reusability of the whole stack, ship and booster next year. This is the fundamental breakthrough required for life to become multiplanetary.” Source: The Joe Rogan Experience, February 28, 2025, Elon Musk , Joe Rogan

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SpaceX is not attempting to catch the Super Heavy Booster for Starship Flight 9 due to a strategic decision to prioritize other mission objectives and reduce risks. The booster, Booster 14-2, previously flew on Flight 7 and is set to perform a landing burn in the Gulf of America, instead of returning to the launch tower for a catch. This choice likely stems from the need to focus on resolving ongoing issues with the Starship upper stage, which has failed in the last two flights (Flights 7 and 8) due to engine-related anomalies. By opting for a simpler booster landing profile, SpaceX can concentrate on testing and refining the Block 2 Starship design, particularly its heat shield and reentry capabilities, without the added complexity of a tower catch.

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Elon on Starship: “It’s going to revolutionize space. Reusability is essential to make life multi-planetary and to ascend the Kardeshev scale; You gotta go a step beyond that and make it rapidly reusable. This is the first time there has ever been a rocket where that is possible. That is what makes Starship so profound. By (Starship) version 4, we’ll be 3x the thirst of the Saturn V rocket. We expect Starship to be flying more than once per hour down the road.”
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Elon on Starship: “It’s going to revolutionize space. Reusability is essential to make life multi-planetary and to ascend the Kardeshev scale; You gotta go a step beyond that and make it rapidly reusable. This is the first time there has ever been a rocket where that is possible. That is what makes Starship so profound. By (Starship) version 4, we’ll be 3x the thirst of the Saturn V rocket. We expect Starship to be flying more than once per hour down the road.”

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BREAKING: For 10 years the world believed there was one way to reuse a rocket: land it upright on its engines, the way SpaceX does. Today China refused to copy it, and pulled off something SpaceX never managed on a first flight. It caught the rocket instead. The Long March 10B lifted off from Hainan, China this morning, and about 6 minutes later its first stage came back down toward a 25,000-ton ship at sea. It did not land. Hooks on the falling booster snagged a net of tensioned steel wires strung across the deck, the wires riding robotic rails that slid into place to meet it. No landing legs. No touchdown. A rocket plucked out of its own descent by a moving net, on the maiden flight of a brand-new vehicle. No one handed China this. SpaceX guards its rocket tech as “trade secrets”, not “patents”, precisely so it cannot be read and copied. China watched a decade of public flights and then built an entirely different machine to reach the same prize, catching instead of landing, which sheds the heavy legs and spares the fuel a soft touchdown burns to hover. And this was never about cheaper satellites, though it delivers those too, feeding the thousands of birds in China's Starlink rival. Its deeper purpose is the Moon. That booster shares its core with the rocket meant to land Chinese astronauts on the lunar surface by 2030. In the same season, America's own Moon rocket, Starship, has flown 12 times and still has not shown the single maneuver its lunar plan depends on. One flight does not dethrone SpaceX. It has landed hundreds. What ended today is not SpaceX's lead. It is Uncle Sam’s belief that it owns the only road to the Moon. The piece works out which way of coming home actually wins.

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Elon Musk, six months ago: The odds of us catching the booster this year are 80% to 90%. “I would say the odds of us actually being able to catch the booster with the Mechazilla arms this year – I don't want to tempt fate, knock on wood – I think the odds of actually catching the booster with the tower are probably 80%, 90% this year, which is insane. Actually, when we first talked about it, it sounded so batshit crazy. It's literally bigger than Mechazilla from this movie that you'd catch, the biggest flying object ever made with mechanical arms out of the air. But we're going to do it. It may not work, you know, necessarily the first time, but it will work.” SpaceX Update, April 2024

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