NASA freezes SpaceX’s lunar lander cash
NASA says it’ll hold up on its payments to SpaceX for developing its Starship super-rocket as a lunar lander while the Government Accountability Office sorts out challenges to the $2.9 billion contract...
View ArticleStarship survives its landing for the first time
SpaceX’s Starship prototype super-rocket stuck the landing today after a 10-kilometer-high test flight. And this time, it didn’t blow up. The six-minute flight at SpaceX’s Starbase facility in Boca...
View ArticleSpace Force awards $87.5 million for rocket development
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command today announced awards totaling $87.5 million to support prototype commercial projects relating to next-generation rocket testing and enhancements to make...
View ArticleElon Musk updates his vision for SpaceX’s Starship
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has laid out a scenario for space travel that calls for his company’s Starship launch system to take on its first orbital test flight as soon as January. Starship could go through...
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Elon Musk lays out his Plan A and Plan B for Starship
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk delivered a long-awaited, live-streamed update on his plans for launching the world’s most powerful rocket, with the spotlighted backdrop of a freshly stacked Starship and Super...
View ArticleAmerica’s first space tourist signs up for a moon trip
Twenty-one years after becoming the first paying passenger to visit the International Space Station, California financial analyst Dennis Tito and his wife, Akiko Tito, are taking on a new space...
View ArticleJapanese billionaire reveals his round-the-moon crew
Four years after announcing that he’d lead an around-the-moon mission aboard SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft, Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has named the eight people he wants to fly with him. In...
View ArticleStarship has a glorious liftoff — but then breaks up
SpaceX’s Starship launch system lifted off on its first full-scale test flight today, rising majestically from its Texas launch pad but falling short of stage separation. The uncrewed mission...
View ArticleSpaceX’s Starship gets farther on its second test flight
SpaceX’s Starship and its Super Heavy booster blew through the primary objective for their second test flight today, but both rocket stages blew up sooner than the company hoped. SpaceX took the day as...
View ArticleStarship goes orbital on third test flight, with fiery ending
After falling short in its first two attempts, SpaceX got its Starship super-rocket to an orbital altitude today during the launch system’s third integrated flight test. Now it just has to work on the...
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