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March 6, 2025

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Starship Super Heavy Booster stuck the “chopstick” landing.

Starship’s Raptor engines ignite during hot-staging separation. Super Heavy is boosting back towards the launch site pic.twitter.com/9oK3m4xJaq

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 6, 2025

Watch Starship's eighth flight test → https://t.co/alyJTRtgTh https://t.co/7xtpEucyQB

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 6, 2025

Breathtaking.

UPDATE: But they lost the Ship second stage, damn.

ANOTHER UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Story here. Remember, we’re learning from iterative failure.

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