.SpaceX in its fifth Starship test flight on Sunday returned the rocket's towering first stage enhancer back to its Texas launching pad for the very first time using gigantic mechanical arms, attaining one more novel engineering accomplishment in the provider's push to develop a reusable moon as well as Mars motor vehicle.The rocket's first stage "Super Heavy" booster lifted off at 7:25 a.m. CT (1225 GMT) from SpaceX's Boca Chica, Texas launch facilities, sending out the Starship second stage spacecraft toward area prior to splitting up at an altitude of roughly 70 kilometres (40 kilometers) to begin its return to land - one of the most daring component of the examination tour.The Super Heavy booster re-lit 3 of its own 33 Raptor motors to reduce its quick declination back to SpaceX's launch site, as it targeted the launch area and tower it had actually blasted off coming from. The tower, taller than the Statue of Freedom at over 400 feet, is actually accommodated along with two large metallic upper arms at the top.Along with its own motors barking, the 233 foot (71 metres)- high Super Heavy booster came under the launch tower's confining arms, fastening itself in location by very small, extending bars under the four ahead network fins it had actually used to guide on its own via the air." The tower has actually caught the rocket!!" chief executive officer Elon Odor composed on X after the catch effort. SpaceX designers enjoying the provider's live flow roared in applause.The novel catch-landing system denoted the most up to date development in SpaceX's test-to-failure progression advocate a completely recyclable rocket created to attic more freight into field, ferry people to the moon for NASA and also ultimately reach Mars - the utmost destination imagined by Musk.Meanwhile Starship, the spacecraft unit's 2nd stage or even best half, travelled at roughly 17,000 kilometers per hr 89 kilometers up in space, heading for the Indian Ocean near western Australia to demonstrate regarding 90 minutes in to flight a regulated splashdown.As Starship reentered Earth's environment flat, onboard cams showed a soft, pinkish-purple hue of superhot blood blanketing the ship's Earth-facing side and its own 2 guiding covers, rigorous hypersonic rubbing featured in a beautiful atmosphere.