Sure, the test flight of the world’s most powerful rocket this week was nail-biting. But it was also a massive win for SpaceX with a successful fourth test for Starship. The company’s goals for this test flight were accomplished as Starship’s first-stage booster, Super Heavy, made a soft splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico and […]
Insights from The New York Times, CNBC, and Space.com The News SpaceX’s much-hyped fourth test of its Starship megarocket began on Thursday, as the world’s largest and most powerful rocket took off from the company’s Starbase launch pad in Texas. Elon Musk’s rocket company first tried to launch Starship in 2023: The test ended in […]
Update for 9 am ET: SpaceX has successfully launched its Starship Flight 4 test flight of Starship and Super Heavy, the world’s largest and most powerful rocket. Shortly after launch, the Super Heavy booster made an apparently successful “soft landing” in the Gulf of Mexico with a controlled splashdown. The Starship vehicle is in a […]
SpaceX plans to launch its giant Starship rocket this morning (June 6), and you can watch the action live. Starship, the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, is scheduled to launch from SpaceX’s Starbase site in South Texas today, during a 100-minute window that opens at 8:50 a.m. EDT (1250 GMT; 7:50 a.m. local […]
BOCA CHICA, Texas – Hours after the Federal Aviation Administration gave clearance for SpaceX to conduct its fourth Starship test flight from Texas, the space company announced it would attempt a launch at 8 a.m. ET on Thursday. The FAA gave the go-ahead for Elon Musk’s company to perform the launch after it met all […]
SpaceX’s next Starship megarocket officially has a license to fly. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Tuesday (June 4) issued a launch license to SpaceX for its Starship Flight 4 test mission, which is currently scheduled to lift off no earlier than Thursday, June 6, from the company’s Starbase facility near Boca Chica Beach in […]
SpaceX’s giant Starship rocket will fly again this week, if all goes according to plan. The company announced over the weekend that it’s targeting Thursday (June 6) for the fourth-ever test flight of Starship, the biggest and most powerful rocket the world has ever known. “Starship is ready to fly,” SpaceX founder and CEO Elon […]
SpaceX has fueled up its Starship megarocket again, ramping up preparations for the huge vehicle’s upcoming test flight. The operation, known as a wet dress rehearsal (WDR), occurred on Tuesday (May 28) at SpaceX‘s Starbase site in South Texas. The company pumped huge quantities of liquid oxygen and liquid methane into Starship‘s first and second […]
We may be less than two weeks away from Starship’s next test flight. SpaceX announced today (May 24) that it’s targeting June 5 for the fourth-ever liftoff of Starship, the giant vehicle it’s developing to get people and cargo to the moon, Mars and beyond. That date is written in pencil rather than pen, however, […]
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. […]
Boeing has put forward its own idea to help NASA get its Mars Sample Return project back on track and on budget. NASA issued a solicitation for new ideas to get scientifically invaluable Martian material to Earth after being told the current plan is too expensive (about $11 billion), while also being too complex and […]
SpaceX continues gearing up for the fourth test flight of its Starship megarocket, which could be just around the corner. Technicians recently stacked the Starship rocket that will conduct the flight, placing its “Ship” upper stage atop its “Super Heavy” first-stage booster on the orbital launch mount at SpaceX‘s Starbase site in South Texas. The […]