Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched a megarocket on Tuesday with Donald Trump in attendance but called off a plan for it to be caught by “chopstick arms”.
The president-elect had travelled to Brownsville, Texas, to witness the sixth test of Starship, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built, that will be crucial to Musk and the US government’s plan to put humans back on the Moon.
While the rocket took flight and entered orbit, the return and catch of Starship’s Super Heavy booster by so-called chopstick arms — which was completed successfully last month — was called off.
The reason for the catch being called off was not immediately clear but the booster landed in the ocean.
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