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m4rtink • today at 12:14 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

Previously they successfully caught the booster returning to the launch site from ~100 km about ~10 minutes from launch.

Here they caught the upper stage ,called starhip, which went to ~260 km orbit, deployed 50 tons of satellites and after 22 hours shed its orbital velocity and manuevered to be caught with centimeter precision. :)


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clivedup • today at 12:23 AM

Oh nice, it's great to see each milestone along the way.

I suppose the challenges with this step are that after starship did its job, we expect it to be worse-for-wear, and so maybe less able to stably land? (But it did it!)