SpaceX Starship Launch 5 test flight SpaceX's Starship made a perfect landing back on the launch pad on Sunday. The Super Heavy booster and Starship capsule is known as the Super Heavy. The Brief SpaceX’s Starship rocket successfully completed its boldest test flight yet with the help of "chopsticks," the monstrous metal arms that caught the rocket booster back at the launch pad. SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk called it "science fiction without the fiction part." BOCA CHICA, Texas - The boldest test flight yet of SpaceX’s Starship rocket ended Sunday with a set of mechanical arms catching the returning booster back at the launch pad. Dubbed "chopsticks," the monstrous arms were attached to the launch tower in Boca Chica, Texas, and caught the 232-foot ‘Super Heavy’ booster in an engineering first. "This is a day for the engineering history books," Kate Tice, SpaceX manager of quality systems engineering, said in a live broadcast of the event. "This is absolutely insane! On the first ever attempt we have successfully caught the Super Heavy booster back at the launch tower." Starship is the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built with 33 methane-fuel engines on the booster alone. Starships Super Heavy Booster is grappled at the launch pad in Starbase near Boca Chica, Texas, on October 13, 2024, during the Starship Flight 5 test. (Photo by SERGIO FLORES/AFP via Getty Images)