SpaceX’s Starship Flight 6 Booster Spotted Floating In Water Close Up From Ship At Night
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SpaceX's Starship Super Heavy booster that flew on Flight 6 failed to sink to the bottom of the ocean, shows fresh footage on X. While SpaceX had originally planned to catch the booster with the tower, the firm aborted the attempt at the last moment. It chose to land the rocket in the ocean instead softly, and Elon Musk later revealed that the reason behind the abort was a problem with the launch tower. Now, fresh footage shows the 232-feet-tall Super Heavy gently floating on the water as teams approach it with a ship.
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According to an image from Elon Musk, SpaceX's Starship Flight 4 booster was the first it had recovered from the water. This rocket landed in the ocean and was the first to complete a soft splashdown in the water. Over the course of Starship's full stack tests, SpaceX has progressively improved its performance as while the booster used in Flight 3 did attempt a splashdown, troubles with its engines destroyed above the ocean's surface.
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Musk's image showed most of Super Heavy's outer ring of engines intact while the inner ring and the body were absent. Starship Flight 5 was the first test with a successful tower catch of the Super Heavy booster which also made it the first rocket that SpaceX recovered fully intact.
With Flight 6, while SpaceX failed to catch the rocket with the tower, it did softly splash it in the ocean. The firm's live stream showed the rocket partially submerged in the water after splashdown, and now, it appears that the Super Heavy might have failed to sink to the bottom of the Texas Gulf.
Footage from X shows the Super Heavy booster gently floating on the water at night. After SpaceX decided to abort the
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