SpaceX Scrubs Starship Launch
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For the first time in 2026, SpaceX's massive Starship rocket launched on a critical mission that took it thundering halfway around the world.
The most powerful rocket in history just roared off its launch pad in a spectacular show of power and technology. SpaceX launched the newest version of its giant Starship rocket Friday (May 22), from a recently completed second pad at its Starbase manufacturing and test facility in South Texas.
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SpaceX’s Pad 2 at Starbase is the first launch pad built to both launch and catch a Super Heavy booster
When SpaceX caught a Super Heavy booster with the mechanical arms of its launch tower for the first time in October 2024, the 233-foot-tall rocket returned not to the pad it launched from, but to a tower that had been retrofitted with catch hardware after the fact.
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