TREE NEWS update: SpaceX plans to attempt catching both Starship vehicles during its next test flight in roughly one week, Elon Musk said. The attempt would mark a first for the program, which has so far recovered a single booster per flight. No target date or additional mission details were given.
Musk: SpaceX to attempt catching both Starship vehicles on next test flight in about a week
The significance here is not the flight itself but the shift in ambition: recovering both stages would move Starship's reusability test from partial to full-stack, a step the program has not yet attempted. That matters most to SpaceX's launch cadence and cost assumptions, and by extension to the commercial customers and government programs relying on it. The open question is execution — Musk gave a rough timeline but no date or mission detail, so whether the attempt happens on that schedule, and whether both catches succeed, is what to watch.
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