These test flights demonstrate how SpaceX’s development style differs from NASA’s, Forczyk says: While NASA tested every component to perfection before its Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft could launch—with federal agencies, Congress, and the White House looking over the agency’s shoulder—SpaceX improves by launching over and over again, seeking to do better with each […]
Read MoreSpaceX’s Starship failed its test flight this morning, when the automated flight termination system triggered following a loss of contact with the craft about 10 minutes into its flight. This marks the company’s second attempt at sending a Starship on a near-orbital flight, a 90-minute voyage that would have gone almost around the world. An […]
Read MoreAs the dust settled following SpaceX’s brief, explosive test launch of Starship in April, both the company and the Federal Aviation Administration dug into investigating the aftermath. The gigantic rocket’s flight lasted just four minutes before it blew up near SpaceX’s Boca Chica launch site on the Texas coast. Images and news reports posted in […]
Read MoreSpaceX’s Starship—a spacecraft that might one day transport people to Mars—has completed its first integrated launch, but made it only a few minutes into its highly-anticipated debut long-distance flight. Just four minutes after liftoff from the company’s launch site in Boca Chica in southern Texas, when the Starship stage was supposed to separate from the […]
Read MoreT-Mobile and SpaceX today announced a plan to offer smartphone connectivity nearly anywhere in the U.S. with a new “satellite-to-cellular” service. The new technology will leverage SpaceX’s second-generation Starlink satellites in low Earth orbit and T-Mobile’s nationwide mid-band 5G spectrum to provide “near complete coverage” in most areas across the U.S., in addition to territorial […]
Read MoreThe first passenger to fly aboard Boeing’s Starliner will be Rosie the Rocketeer, a mannequin set to blast off to the International Space Station aboard the capsule on Thursday evening. If she makes the trip safely, NASA astronauts will be cleared for future flights on the new spacecraft. A successful uncrewed demonstration will make Boeing […]
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