SpaceX launches colossal Starship rocket and catches it for 2nd time with robotic arms

SpaceX for the second time has used giant mechanical arms to catch its Starship rocket back at the pad minutes after liftoff. At the same time, the empty spacecraft launched from Texas Thursday soared across the Gulf of Mexico on a near loop around the world similar to previous test flights. But this time Elon Musk’s SpaceX packed it with 10 dummy satellites for practice at releasing them. It was the seventh test flight for the world’s biggest and most powerful rocket. NASA has reserved a pair of Starships to land astronauts on the moon later this decade. Musk’s goal is Mars.