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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 …

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 …

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 …

If the weather cooperates Tuesday night, eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey residents, along with the rest of the Mid-Atlantic, may have good seats for a rocket launch. The launch, weather permitting, will take place at a NASA facility on the Delmarva peninsula in Wallops Island, Virginia, just south of Ocean City, Maryland. The launch window opens at 10:30 p.m. and …

SpaceX’s Starship megarocket took to the skies for the 10th time ever today (Aug. 26), on a bold test flight that marked a big bounceback from recent failures. Starship, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built, lifted off from SpaceX’s Starbase site in South Texas today at 7:30 p.m. EDT (2330 GMT; 6:30 p.m. local Texas time). That was …

Third time was the charm on Tuesday for the launch of SpaceX’s Starship megarocket after the launch had been scrubbed two times in as many days. The success of this 10th flight proved the spacecraft had overcome its past failures key to the Mars rocket’s reusable design. The stainless steel behemoth, 403ft (123 meters) tall, lifted off from the company’s …

Running two days late, SpaceX finally launched its huge Super Heavy-Starship on Tuesday on a high-stakes return-to-flight after three catastrophic failures in a row earlier this year. The Super Heavy booster’s 33 methane-fueled Raptor engines flashed to life with a ground-shaking roar and a rush of flaming exhaust at 7:30 p.m. ET, majestically pushing the 40-story-tall rocket away from SpaceX’s …

If you’re up late Tuesday night, you’ll have a chance to see three rockets streaking across the sky if you’re in New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania or several other eastern states. NASA plans to launch three sounding rockets within a 5-minute span from the Wallops Flight Facility in eastern Virginia late Tuesday. The launch was originally scheduled for last week but …

NORTH CAROLINA (WTVD) — The TOMEX+ sounding rocket mission launch attempt was scrubbed on Sunday and Monday due to cloud cover and high sea states in the recovery area. NASA is now targeting Tuesday night (Aug. 26) for the first launch. Those in the Mid-Atlantic region, and portions of North Carolina, may catch a glimpse of the rocket, weather permitting. …

SpaceX Reschedules Critical 10th Test Launch of Mars Rocket  The New York Times An ‘existential gamble’: Why some experts are worried as SpaceX gears up for next Starship test  CNN SpaceX scrubs Starship flight test. When could megarocket launch now?  USA Today SpaceX scrubs Starship rocket launch to troubleshoot ‘ground systems’ issue  The Guardian Musk’s SpaceX Starship set for critical test launch after series …