SpaceX may try to catch a falling rocket with a launch tower – Ars Technica

Enlarge/ SpaceX’s Starship is expected to have landing legs. Its first stage launch vehicle, Super Heavy, may not.
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To build a fully reusable launch system for its interplanetary Starship vehicle, SpaceX has had to solve myriad technical challenges, such as slowing the massive spacecraft down as it reenters Earth’s atmosphere at near-orbital velocities.
But perhaps the biggest challengeas always, with rocketsis fairly mundane: its mass. The goal with a rocket is to…

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