SpaceX is pushing to sharply increase rocket launches in Texas as it races to demonstrate its massive new vehicle can fly as designed. SpaceX is pushing to sharply increase rocket launches in Texas as it races to demonstrate its massive new vehicle can fly as designed. The company has proposed to launch Starship rockets up …
Technicians used a 30-ton crane to lift NASA’s Orion spacecraft on Friday, June 28, 2024. NASA/Radislav Sinyak This is the spacecraft that NASA will launch to the moon, taking four astronauts to orbit Earth’s natural satellite for the first time since 1972. The Orion spacecraft, which will be used for the space agency’s Artemis 2 …
Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX, has shared ambitious plans for Starships’s fifth launch. The mega-rocket is slated to complete its next test launch sometime in July, following a successful fourth launch earlier this month. This time around, though, Musk says the company plans to try to “catch” the rocket on its way back down …
SpaceX just fueled up its giant Starship rocket, checking another box ahead of the vehicle’s fourth test flight. The company performed a “wet dress rehearsal” with Starship at its Starbase site in South Texas today (May 20), filling both of the vehicle’s stages with supercold liquid oxygen and liquid methane in a key prelaunch test. …
SpaceX is reportedly eyeing a quick turnaround for its fourth Starship launch. Following a very successful third launch earlier this month, SpaceX seems keen on a May launch date for Starship’s fourth iteration, according to some reports. The news first broke during the Satellite 2024 conference on March 19, when Gynne Shotwell, the president and …
Fresh off the third launch of the Starship rocket, which was lost after it attempted reentry into Earth’s atmosphere, SpaceX chief Elon Musk now claims that a more advanced future version of the spacecraft will travel into interstellar space. “This Starship is designed to traverse our entire solar system and beyond to the cloud of …
Elon Musk’s Starship Captures Breathtaking Images of Earth | In Pictures | Image:X Elon Musk’s SpaceX has once again captured the world’s attention with stunning images of Earth taken by its Starship during its first successful flight through space on Thursday. The Starship, hailed as the world’s most powerful rocket, achieved its farthest and fastest …
SpaceX’s third Starship test flight last Thursday was its best yet, far exceeding the first two missions, which took place last year and ended in huge fireballs just a few minutes in. This time, the Starship — comprising the first-stage Super Heavy booster and upper-stage Starship spacecraft — kept on flying, with both parts reaching …
It was a big week for SpaceX. Starship, the most powerful rocket in the world built by the company, had its third test launch on Thursday and unlike the previous two attempts, it did not explode. That is a big success for the Elon Musk-led company despite the fact it lost the actual spacecraft when …
SpaceX came close to completing an hour-long test flight of its mega rocket on its third try Thursday, but the spacecraft was lost as it descended back to Earth. The company said it lost contact with Starship as it neared its goal, a splashdown in the Indian Ocean. The first-stage booster also ended up in …