SpaceX said one of its Starships “experienced a major anomaly,” sitting on a test pad in Starbase, Texas on Wednesday night.

SpaceX intends to captures Starship's Super Heavy booster with mechanical arms known as "chopsticks." See an animation of a ...

The company steered the Super Heavy booster squarely into the “chopsticks,” the metal arms of “Mechazilla,” which is SpaceX’s name for the launch tower that also serves as a structural ...

Around seven minutes into the mission, the Super Heavy booster returned to the launch mount. The towering Mechazilla, equipped with its chopstick-like arms, flawlessly caught the descending booster.

The Starship spacecraft ignited its own engines and began soaring through space. The company steered the Super Heavy booster squarely into the “chopsticks,” the metal arms of “Mechazilla,” which is ...