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For story suggestions or custom animation requests, contact tips@nextanimation.com.tw. Visit http://archive.nextanimationstudio.com to view News Direct's complete archive of 3D news animations. RESTRICTIONS: Broadcast: NO USE JAPAN, NO USE TAIWAN Digital: NO USE JAPAN, NO USE TAIWAN Elon Musk says SpaceX will try a very different approach to landing its future reusable rocket boosters, according to tech website Techcrunch. On 31 December, Musk tweeted: "We're going to try to catch the Super Heavy booster with the launch tower arm, using the grid fins to take the load." RUNDOWN SHOWS: 1. Super Heavy booster and Starship launches from launch tower 2. Booster detaches from starship, turns around, fires to return to launch site 3. Falling into atmosphere, booster flips right side up again, stabilizing grid fins deploy 4. Nearing ground, main rockets fire to slow it down 5. Booster stops meters from ground, next to launch tower, starts to move to catching arm 6. Booster nestles into arm, grid fins settle on arm, booster hangs meters above ground VOICEOVER (in English): Elon Musk says SpaceX will try a very different approach to landing its future reusable rocket boosters, according to tech website Techcrunch. On 31 December, Musk tweeted: "We're going to try to catch the Super Heavy booster with the launch tower arm, using the grid fins to take the load." Current Falcon 9 boosters return to Earth and land propulsively on their own built-in legs — but Musk's new plan for the Super Heavy booster is for the larger rocket not to have legs at all. SpaceX's Super Heavy booster is still under development. This giant booster rocket would be the biggest rocket stage ever built, featuring up to 28 Raptor rocket engines. The booster's landing sequence would still involve the use of its engines to control the velocity of its descent, but the new plan would see the grid fins — which help control its orientation during flight — double as catch arms that would catch on a giant catching bracket. This means the giant rocket would hang from its grid fans without touching the ground at all. This method would save cost, weight, and turnaround time by omitting landing legs from the rocket. SOURCES: TechCrunch, Engadget, Ars Technica, New Atlas https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/30/elon-musk-says-spacex-will-attempt-to-recover-super-heavy-rocket-by-catching-it-with-launch-tower/ https://www.engadget.com/spacex-to-catch-super-heavy-rocket-with-launch-tower-160815022.html https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/01/spacex-may-try-to-catch-a-falling-rocket-with-a-launch-tower/ https://newatlas.com/space/elon-musk-super-heavy-booster-catch-launch-tower-arm/ *** ----------------------------------------­­---------------------------------------­-­---------------- Next Animation Studio’s News Direct service provides daily, high-quality, informative 3D news animations that fill in for missing footage and help viewers understand breaking news stories or in-depth features on science, technology, and health. Sign up for a free trial of News Direct's news animations at http://newsdirect.nextanimationstudio.com/trial/ To subscribe to News Direct or for more info, please visit: http://newsdirect.nextanimationstudio.com

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