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Have You Seen This? Beneath the launch pad as Starship rocket takes off

Have You Seen This? Beneath the launch pad as Starship rocket takes off

STARBASE, Texas — Watching a rocket launch from afar seems amazing enough. Imagine the view from under the launch pad. SpaceX’s 403-foot-tall Starship system lifted off from southern Texas last week. Widely seen footage showed the blastoff from a distance, but another video provides a fiery view from a camera on the launch mount under the rocket thrusters. Commenters seemed …

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SpaceX’s Red Hot Starship Mars Rocket Images Share Stunning Flight 10 Views But Don’t Answer Key Questions Related To The Mega Test Flight

SpaceX’s Red Hot Starship Mars Rocket Images Share Stunning Flight 10 Views But Don’t Answer Key Questions Related To The Mega Test Flight

This is not investment advice. The author has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. Wccftech.com has a disclosure and ethics policy. After its successful Starship Flight 10 last week, SpaceX shared additional images of the test and the first from inside the ship. SpaceX is the only rocket company and launch provider in the world capable of beaming …

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Science news this week: A world first pig-to-human lung transplant, and SpaceX’s Starship nails a test flight

Science news this week: A world first pig-to-human lung transplant, and SpaceX’s Starship nails a test flight

This week’s science news has been filled with medical breakthroughs, including the first-ever pig-to-human lung transplant into a brain-dead person. The experiment, which took place in Guangzhou, China, kept the lungs alive and working for nine days, despite showing signs of rejection early on in the procedure. The researchers behind the study say that their work “paves the way for …

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Elon Musk shares unbelievable Starship Flight 10 landing feat

Elon Musk shares unbelievable Starship Flight 10 landing feat

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has frequently expressed his opinions on LiDAR in the past, but in recent days, the EV maker’s frontman has continued to discuss the weaknesses in the technology and why his company has relied on cameras. He also mentioned the suite’s limits on Waymo’s capabilities. Tesla completely abandoned using radar alongside its camera suite a few years …

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Watch burnt and battered Starship splash down in Indian Ocean to wrap up historic Flight 10 (video, photos)

Watch burnt and battered Starship splash down in Indian Ocean to wrap up historic Flight 10 (video, photos)

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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Starship brings the heat in fiery Flight 10 launch video from SpaceX

Starship brings the heat in fiery Flight 10 launch video from SpaceX

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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With Starship Flight 10, SpaceX prioritized resilience over perfection

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 …

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What’s next for SpaceX’s Starship Mars rocket after Flight 10 success?

What’s next for SpaceX’s Starship Mars rocket after Flight 10 success?

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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