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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Satellite Companies Like SpaceX Are Ignoring Astronomers’ Calls to Save the Night Sky
There are more than 12,000 active satellites circling Earth at the moment, a growing figure that has nearly doubled in less than three years. This recent boom in the satellite industry has been a major headache for astronomers, with bright satellites appearing as streaks in telescope images of the universe and tarnishing views of the night skies. A new paper …
Read More »With recent Falcon 9 milestones, SpaceX vindicates its “dumb” approach to reuse
As SpaceX’s Starship vehicle gathered all of the attention this week, the company’s workhorse Falcon 9 rocket continued to hit some impressive milestones. Both occurred during relatively anonymous launches of the company’s Starlink satellites but are nonetheless notable because they underscore the value of first-stage reuse, which SpaceX has pioneered over the last decade. The first milestone occurred on Wednesday …
Read More »SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches Starlink satellites on record-breaking 30th flight
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 …
Read More »With Starship Flight 10, SpaceX prioritized resilience over perfection
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 …
Read More »Starship Mars rocket met ‘every major objective’ on epic Flight 10 test launch, SpaceX says
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 …
Read More »Vandenberg’s Next Mission: SpaceX Launch, Landing on Tuesday | Local News
What: Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County. When: The 27-minute launch window opens at 11:53 a.m. Tuesday, according to SpaceX. If needed, the team has backup opportunities during the same time period Wednesday. Where: Space Launch Complex-4 on South Base. Landing: The first-stage booster, making its 27th flight, will return to Landing Zone 4, west …
Read More »SpaceX Starship Deploys Satellites in Space During Key Test – Bloomberg.com
SpaceX Starship Deploys Satellites in Space During Key Test Bloomberg.com SpaceX Starship Completes Successful Test Flight After Previous Launch Setbacks The New York Times Video: SpaceX rocket launches after third attempt CNN SpaceX’s Starship passes development rut, deploys first mock satellites Reuters Starship deploys all payloads during 10th flight, splashes down in Indian Ocean ValleyCentral.com Source link
Read More »SpaceX launches giant Super Heavy-Starship rocket on critical test flight
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 …
Read More »SpaceX Just Sent the ISS a New Way to Stay in Orbit
The International Space Station (ISS) has been in orbit for over 26 years, housing astronauts at an altitude of 250 miles (400 kilometers) above Earth. But even at that distance, the space station can’t escape the drag of Earth’s atmosphere as oxygen molecules and other gases collide with it, causing it to lose altitude over time. For the ISS to …
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