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Mar262021 by adminNo Comments

SpaceX will try to stick the landing for new Starship test flight

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March 26 (UPI) -- SpaceX plans another attempt to fly and land the company's Starship moon and Mars rocket over sometime over the next four days from Boca Chica, Texas. The rocket company has filed for "no-fly" notices during daylight hours from Friday through Monday around the SpaceX launch facility in the community about 180 miles south of Corpus Christi. Advertisement Previous test flights of the giant, stainless steel rocket ended in fireballs in December, February and March. The tests are part of SpaceX's rapid prototype development methods, which the company used to develop its highly successful Falcon rockets. Starship is one of three spacecraft NASA has chosen as possible means to send astronauts back to the moon this decade. The space agency intends to choose two proposals for th...

Feb32021 by adminNo Comments

Watch: SpaceX flies, crashes Starship moon rocket again

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Feb. 2 (UPI) -- SpaceX's test flight of the company's deep-space Starship rocket ended for a second time in a fiery explosion on the landing pad Tuesday in Boca Chica, Texas, after the Federal Aviation Administration modified the company's license to allow the launch. The rocket, named SN9, ascended to a height of more than 6 miles and performed a flip manuever. But after it descended, its engines appeared to ignite improperly, according to live video SpaceX provided. Advertisement The explosion is not necessarily a setback because the company is gathering data about the craft as it tests, said John Insprucker, the principal engineer at SpaceX, during the broadcast. SpaceX is known for losing rockets during early testing as it explores new designs. "We've done a lot of good things. We jus...

Dec102020 by adminNo Comments

Elon Musk’s Starship prototype makes a big impact

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Nov212019 by adminNo Comments

SpaceX Starship prototype blows its top

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SpaceX's Starship rocket prototype experienced a major failure during pressurisation testing on Wednesday.A video from the scene in Texas showed the top part of the vehicle rupture.Cryogenic propellants that were being loaded at the time dispersed across the Boca Chica facility in a huge cloud.The US company bills Starship as an all-purpose transportation system of the future. It will be used to ferry people and cargo off Earth, and to destinations around the globe.The Mk-1 prototype was due to begin practice flights to an altitude of 20km in the coming weeks. In a tweet, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said that could no longer happen and the ship would be retired.Development work is already being directed at another prototype, labelled th...

Sep302019 by adminNo Comments

Elon Musk upbeat on Starship test flights

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The American entrepreneur Elon Musk has given a further update on his Starship and Super Heavy rocket system.He plans to use the new vehicles to send people to the Moon and Mars, and also to move them swiftly around the Earth.The SpaceX CEO is in the process of building prototypes and plans to start flying them in the coming months.The Mk1 version of his Starship would begin high-altitude tests in the next one to two months, he said."This is the most inspiring thing I've ever seen," the entrepreneur told an audience gathered at the company's Boca Chica, Texas, facility where the prototype has been assembled."So this thing is going to take off, fly to 65,000ft, about 20km, and come back and land....