A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket flies from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on the Starlink 10-11 mission. This launch featured the Falcon 9 booster, tail number B1067, making its 30th trip to space and back. Image: John Pisani/Spaceflight Now Update Aug. 28, 5:20 a.m. EDT: SpaceX confirmed deployment of the 28 satellites. SpaceX second Starlink launch in …
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Fans, crew, and passengers joined in celebrating the legendary analyst PublishedAugust 29, 2025 10:03 AM EDT•UpdatedAugust 29, 2025 10:03 AM EDT Facebook Twitter Email Copy Link Lee Corso’s final appearance on College Gameday got off to an emotional start before he actually arrived in Columbus for the Ohio State, Texas showdown, thanks to Southwest Airlines. “On November 18th, 2021, I …
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Spectacular new footage gives us great looks at the final moments of the latest test flight of Starship, the huge rocket SpaceX is developing to help humanity settle Mars. That mission, the 10th-ever for the 397-foot-tall (121-meter-tall) megarocket, lifted off from SpaceX‘s Starbase site in South Texas on Tuesday evening (Aug. 26). Everything went well on Flight 10. Starship‘s Super …
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The world’s most powerful rocket aced a critical test launch this week, and the images from liftoff are stunning. Starship Flight 10 lifted off from SpaceX‘s Starbase site in South Texas on Tuesday evening (Aug. 26). The rocket met each of its objectives, ending a streak of subpar performance that had plagued the developing launch vehicle since the beginning of …
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Flights in and out of Newark Liberty International Airport were experiencing significant delays Thursday after a ground stop caused by communication issues in the lead up to the Labor Day weekend. Flights were temporarily ground-stopped Thursday morning due to equipment issues at the FAA, ABC7 reported. By 12:30 p.m. the ground stop was lifted at both Newark Airport and nearby …
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With shiny new next-generation spacecraft come the complex systems required to track their technologically advanced systems. When it comes to NASA’s Orion spacecraft, that need is a whole extra room of monitors. NASA has opened a new complex in the Mission Control Center at its Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston ahead of the Artemis 2 mission to send astronauts …
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SpaceX has broken its rocket reuse record again, notching a nice round number in the process. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday (Aug. 28) at 4:12 a.m. EDT (0812 GMT), carrying 28 of SpaceX’s Starlink internet satellites toward low Earth orbit (LEO). It was the 30th liftoff for this Falcon 9’s …
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SpaceX has long marketed Starship as a fully and rapidly reusable rocket that’s designed to deliver thousands of pounds of cargo to Mars and make life multiplanetary. But reusability at scale means a space vehicle that can tolerate mishaps and faults, so that a single failure doesn’t spell a mission-ending catastrophe. The 10th test flight on Tuesday evening demonstrated …
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Starship performed very well on Tuesday (Aug. 27), but SpaceX will soon move on from the shiny silver vehicle. From the current version of it, anyway: The company plans to continue iterating with Starship, which checked all of its boxes during its 10th-ever test flight on Tuesday evening. SpaceX is developing Starship to help humanity settle Mars, and to achieve …
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The Starship megarocket passed its latest launch trial with flying colors, according to SpaceX. Starship, the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, launched from SpaceX’s Starbase site in South Texas at 7:30 p.m. EDT (2330 GMT) on Tuesday (Aug. 26), kicking off the vehicle’s 10th-ever test mission. Flight 10 was eventful and ambitious. Starship met the challenge, “taking a …
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