{"id":51821,"date":"2026-11-15T03:35:06","date_gmt":"2026-11-15T02:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/15\/watch-spacex-successfully-execute-the-first-chopstick-catch-of-starship\/"},"modified":"2026-11-15T03:35:06","modified_gmt":"2026-11-15T02:35:06","slug":"watch-spacex-successfully-execute-the-first-chopstick-catch-of-starship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/15\/watch-spacex-successfully-execute-the-first-chopstick-catch-of-starship\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch SpaceX successfully execute the first \u2018chopstick\u2019 catch of Starship"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Terrence O’Brien<\/p>\n

is the Verge\u2019s weekend editor. He\u2019s covered the tech industry for over 18 years and knows a thing or two about synths.<\/p>\n

After aborting<\/a> a planned catch<\/a> of Starship Flight 15\u2019s booster, SpaceX successfully captured Starship with its \u201cMechazilla\u201d launch and catch tower for the first time. The company has performed \u2018chopstick<\/a>\u2019 catches of its boosters<\/a> before, but this is the first time the maneuver has successfully been executed on the Starship vehicle itself.<\/p>\n

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said during the company\u2019s third-quarter earnings call<\/a> that \u201csuccess is not guaranteed on these first flights, but I\u2019d say it\u2019s more likely than not that this succeeds next flight.\u201d While not a complete success, in that the company was unable to recover the entire launch vehicle, it still stands as a milestone for the Starship program. And, since it has previously caught boosters on previous launches, there is reason to believe the failure today was not an insurmountable obstacle. SpaceX is still trying to determine<\/a> what caused the booster to abort its landing and detonate over the Gulf of Mexico.<\/p>\n

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Terrence O’Brien is the Verge\u2019s weekend editor. He\u2019s covered the tech industry for over 18 years and knows a thing or two about synths. After aborting a planned catch of Starship Flight 15\u2019s booster, SpaceX successfully captured Starship with its \u201cMechazilla\u201d launch and catch tower for the first time. The company has performed \u2018chopstick\u2019 catches<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":51822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[36,108,327,336,458],"class_list":["post-51821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech","tag-mixtv","tag-news","tag-science","tag-space","tag-spacex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}