SpaceX Starship/Superheavy Launch and Catch Animation

With the first Starship orbital flight attempt scheduled for early next year, we're now starting to look forward to one of the wildest parts of the Starship program to date: catching the Super Heavy booster instead of using landing legs. Very little is known about the exact catch sequence, so I decided to animate how I think it may look.

The actual first catch attempt will likely be on the second or third launch attempt, so the booster is shown as the upgraded 33-engine version.

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Music Used: "Major Incursion" from Filmstro

[GubranGrostein]

Watching that actually happen in real life will be a turning point for humanity and how we reuse rockets. Amazing animation!

[MattLowne]

WOW! This is amazing. Excellent job as always 😍

[framryk]

Love that attention to detail and that was amazing. Seeing that stack go up past the launch tower gave me “21st Century Saturn V” chills. Can’t wait to see this for real in 2022!

[biltrex]

Just watched IFT-4, and man... you got so much right. The drone shots were almost identical. Well done!

[SRFriso]

This is an incredible render, the only thing I think will be slightly inaccurate is the moment the Chopsticks catch the booster. It seems pretty violent here. Starship is not the Falcon 9, part of the reason they can't test this system on the Falcon 9 is that the Merlin engine is too powerful to let the empty booster hover, even at idle throttle. But the Starship booster is so heavy, and the thrust fraction of the Raptor is much smaller, so it will be able to hover. It's 100 tons of steel SpaceX is trying to stop, they will want to scrub off any speed they can. If they don't, it'll be converted into torque on the Chopsticks, and snap them off like they really did get the from your local sushi restaurant.

[InfiniteSpaceMedia]

This is unbelievable! Incredible job! 🤯

[joshuahyatt]

The ignition! I haven't seen a video that nails the ignition so well! THAT looks like something that's going to frickin space!

[FrancescoSpace]

Insane realism. My favorite animation so far! You’ve improved so much since the original Starship Launch Animation. 😍

[tsr]

Simply awe inspiring ! I never thought that a piece of computer animation would have the power to make the hair on the back of the neck stand up like this does !

[TheRandomGamer]

I love that detail with the outer middle engines actuating out to give the 3 inner engines more room to gimble,

Bravo!

[farrenrohana]

AWESOMENESS !!! Can't wait to see this IRL

[roykaplan]

This is incredible. Well done! Please add in the return, capture, and restacking of the Ship as well.

[ayushtokeria]

currently when boosters land on either the landing pad or landing ship they are quite accurate but this takes accurate to another level, it has to be perfectly in between the arms so that when the arms close it doesn’t crash or explode. I cant wait for when this all goes down. Biggest moment in history!

[MirorRflction]

it has just dawned on me how truly, gloriously insane the SpaceX stage 0 design is. Cant wait to see this thing work IRL

[ConnerAnderson]

What excellent sound work! That was thrilling!

[lucasfamily]

Plot twist- SpaceX is actually modeling their designs and plans after C-Bass’ creativity. Love this video. This could be my morning inspiration video.❤️

[jamesp]

Looks totally impossible... So, as usual, I will be looking forward to it irl. Never underestimate SpaceX, it will happen. Great animation by the way, awesome!

[KevinD]

The level of detail in this video is incredible. Well done!

[dinorei]

The best 3D rocket animation I hve ever seen.

[parkay]

a quite astounding and phenomenal piece of 3D work, Sir, I salute you.