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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SpaceX shared stunning photos of its Falcon 9 rocket carrying the U.S. Space Force’s secretive X-37B space plane into orbit last week. The pictures capture the nighttime launch on Aug. 21, when the robotic X-37B, also known as the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV), lifted off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida at …
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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 …
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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 …
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“Our capsule’s engines are not pointed in the right direction for optimum boost,” said Sarah Walker, SpaceX’s director of Dragon mission management. “So, this trunk module has engines pointed in the right direction to maximize efficiency of propellant usage.” When NASA says it’s the right time, SpaceX controllers will command the Draco thrusters to ignite and gently accelerate the massive …
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Watch live! SpaceX to launch Starship on 10th flight test – YouTube Watch On SpaceX is counting down toward a weekend launch of its 10th Starship megarocket, the largest rocket on Earth, but if you’re hoping to watch the test flight live, you’ll need to know when and where to tune in. And for that, space fans, we’ve got what …
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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Re-Entry and Splashdown – YouTube Watch On SpaceX’s Crew-10 astronauts will return to Earth today (Aug. 9) after living on the International Space Station for nearly five months, and you can watch the action live. The mission’s Crew Dragon capsule, named Endurance, is scheduled to splash down in the Pacific Ocean off the California coast today at …
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SpaceX will launch its 100th mission of the year today (Aug. 7), and you can watch the action live. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 of Amazon’s Project Kuiper internet satellites is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida today, during a 27-minute window that opens at 10:01 a.m. EDT (1401 GMT). SpaceX will stream …
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Update for Aug. 7: NASA and SpaceX have delayed the return of Crew-10 due to weather concerns. “NASA and SpaceX are standing down from the Thursday undocking opportunity of the Crew-10 mission from the International Space Station due to high winds forecasted for the splashdown locations off the coast of California,” the agency wrote in a statement. SpaceX and the …
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The four astronauts of SpaceX’s Crew-11 mission have arrived at their orbital destination. Crew-11’s Crew Dragon capsule, named Endeavour, docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday at 2:26 a.m. EDT (0626 GMT), less than 15 hours after it launched atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida’s Space Coast. The hatches between the two spacecraft are expected to open …
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