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Flight 6 of SpaceX’s giant Starship is scheduled to fly no earlier than Monday, November 18, 2024. If there are no delays, the world’s largest rocket ever to fly will lift off at 4:00 pm CST from the company’s Texas Starbase. Here’s how to watch.Contin… Continue reading First SpaceX Starship launch since ‘chopsticks’ catch: How to watch
As the world watched slack-jawed while SpaceX’s Super Heavy booster made the world’s first tower capture landing after boosting the Starship 5 mission into orbit, few knew that the event came within one second of disaster.Continue ReadingCategory: Spac… Continue reading Historic Starship booster capture was a second from a fiery end
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In an astonishing bit of space gymnastics, SpaceX has pulled off a true first. It captured a Super Heavy booster at about 7:31 am CT using its own launch tower after delivering a Starship second stage to orbit, followed by a controlled reentry.Continue… Continue reading Watch: SpaceX makes historic booster capture
SpaceX founder Elon Musk says that the first of his company’s Starship spacecraft will set off for Mars in two years and the first crewed missions will follow in 2028. He sees this as part of his plan to make humanity an interplanetary species.Continue… Continue reading Elon Musk plans to send first Starships to Mars in 2026
Thursday, as you know, saw the fourth Starship launch, and the first in which both the Starship and the Super Heavy booster both made it all the way to a successful splashdown. I’ve never actually seen a launch of any sort before – I tried once at Kenn… Continue reading Liftoff: What it’s like attending a Starship launch
SpaceX’s Starship scored a double win on its fourth test mission today as both the Super Heavy first stage and the Starship second stage had successful flights, reaching space and ending in slow splashdowns in the Gulf of Mexico and the Indian Ocean.Co… Continue reading Starship Flight 4 aces mission with double splashdown
SpaceX plans to launch its Starship spacecraft into orbit for the fourth time on June 6 sometime after 7:00 am CDT. The day and time are tentative because SpaceX has yet to win FAA approval for the launch, but if you want to watch, here’s how.Continue … Continue reading SpaceX to attempt 4th orbital Starship flight: How to watch
Elon Musk is doubling down on his commitment to the colonization of Mars. In an address at SpaceX’s Starbase facility at Boca Chica, Texas, he gave an update on how the advances in the company’s Starship rocket and plummeting launch costs could one day… Continue reading Musk plans 1,000-ship fleets to colonize Mars
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