SpaceX intends to captures Starship's Super Heavy booster with mechanical arms known as "chopsticks." See an animation of a catch and recent footage from tests. Credit: Space.com | animation & footage

For the first time, SpaceX will fly a Starship V3 configuration from its Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas, sending the upgraded Super Heavy booster on a trajectory that ends not with the now-famous mechanical “chopstick” tower catch but with a controlled splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico.